tall order

noun

informal

: something that is very difficult to do

Getting the project done on schedule is going to be a tall order.

That's a tall order to fill.

Examples of tall order in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tech has a tall order this weekend, taking on the Tennessee Volunteers at home. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 10 Sep. 2026

After nearly three decades, Practical Magic 2 had a tall order to fill in conjuring the same magic as the original 1998 adaptation of the Alice Hoffman book. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026

No coach claimed it, no campaign minted it, and more than three decades later, tracing down its first utterance remains a tall order. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

That may be a tall order, as the automaker never managed to move more than 33,000 F-150 Lightning pickups in a single year, and needed five years to manage 105,000 vehicles sold. — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for tall order

• camcorder
• disorder
• recorder
• reorder
• suborder
• transborder
• boarder
• border
• corder
• warder