a devil of a time / job etc

a devil of a time / job etc old-fashioned spokena difficult or unpleasant time, job etc难熬的时光/费力的工作等:•We had a devil of a job trying to get the carpet clean again.我们要把地毯再弄干净，真是麻烦极了。

• security clearance
• Dirgue
• territorially
• parent log
• modernizations
• passion fruit
• exstrophy
• holostomes
• keep one's eyes open (或 peeled 或 polished 或 skinned)
• Meniere's syndrome
• random sampling
• litterbugged
• sine qua non
• last hurrah
• infection court
• trouble-free
• uncommonness
• blockily
• dog's dinner
• make a prize of
• fall by the way
• in the time (或hour) of peril
• disinfest
• Sr.
• enwomb
• changeling
• enwrap
• antiphrases
• pneumatogenic
• killing bottle
• wort
• rathskellers
• Gaziantep
• interborough
• oscillatory surge
• graduss
• hist.
• dimidiating
• fakir
• transfused
• Maundy
• warm fortunes
• swing-stoppered
• attrition test
• Kahaneist
• blockbusters
• hyperbolic tangent
• to a nicety
• krumhorn
• oesophageal
• take/draw sb to one side
• (waiting) in the wings
• travesty
• sea-borne commerce
• ethnoarchaeology
• attorn
• galvanotropic
• neuropharmacology
• diglycol
• sharp-frozen
• of fine proportions
• grey wolves
• sisterships
• muster ... up
• kill oneself
• ionospheric D scatter meteor burst
• pasturer
• hairstylists
• take someone at the rebound
• burglary
• tuberculizing
• Mayan
• longhorns
• make fashion
• wouldn't
• epistomata
• eternisation
• speed up
• the heart's desire
• precooker
• disney
• organising
• a litter of sth
• compline
• ST
• season opener
• mister
• agrigentoes
• politique
• lingulas
• underachieved
• burriest
• well-nigh
• the time is ripe (for sth)
• Bretschneideraceae
• to the best of your ability
• on this score
• criminal contempts
• biquartz
• December and May