hard to take

phrase

: difficult to be around due to being rude, annoying, etc.
He's a little hard to take sometimes.

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Wakanda Forever thus became a story about mourning — but piling so many fictional deaths (ranging from nameless soldiers and civilians to the queen of Wakanda herself) on top of the real one becomes emotionally hard to take after a certain point. Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026 Kharg and other such Iranian islands are hard to take and harder to hold. Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 30 July 2026 The vines work hard to take root, and from their struggle come wines that are bold, aromatic, and uniquely Croatian. Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026 But Khan and Rabada fought hard to take the game into the final overs, where they were trumped by Archer and Deshpande. ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hard to take

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“Hard to take.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20to%20take. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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