(have) a mountain to climb

(have) a mountain to climb BrEused to say that someone has a lot of work to do to achieve their aim, especially when you believe it will be difficult面临艰巨的任务

• head（或cut）someone/thing off at the pass
• ptomaines
• advocacy
• emit
• jury process
• tin openers
• mediatrix
• soldering iron
• scrape sth↔together/up
• wildcatted
• antiferromagnets
• liegemen
• piston valve
• discourse on / upon sth
• Amiidae
• pattings
• pander to
• beverage
• grounding outlet
• gratifier
• admit of
• electrooptical
• eddy resistance
• pleopod
• spig
• hyperbolae
• paralyse
• yarg
• sandfly fever
• habitan
• conveyable
• FK5
• plate-grid capacitance
• barracks lawyer
• Choctaw
• pneumatizes
• reason
• whizzed
• abbreviate
• BSEE
• rhizobial
• unpracticalness
• let someone in on/into
• Midwestern
• check bouncer
• notches
• get one's finger out
• Floridian
• the headlines
• be patient with
• undelete
• clindamycins
• naturalising
• industrio-
• benzyloxy-
• pneu.
• windingness
• neurocirculatory
• face to face
• sopped
• blonde bombshell
• ministrative
• monosodium glutamate
• wireway
• blank sth↔out
• pornotopia
• azomycin
• warm someone's jacket
• mechanical mule
• Claude Lorrain
• succuss
• in a world of one's own
• glass eye
• Kereses
• flannelmouths
• panem et circenses!
• fickle
• beef
• nominated
• wireworker
• beadrolls
• off the peg
• in / into a (flat) spin
• run sb's life
• juliets
• tight fit
• dome stadium
• make the best of one’s opportunity
• drug fiend
• haw-haw
• divertor
• the fair
• inspection chamber
• bewilderings
• nef
• faradising
• up-yours
• debt swap
• adeles
• hearthstones