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tall order
Idioms and Phrases
A goal that is hard to fulfill or achieve, as in Getting a thousand new subscribers is a tall order indeed . This expression uses tall in the sense of “impressively great” or “difficult.” [c. 1900]Example Sentences
It's a tall order – and one that many believe to be highly unrealistic.
He promises to fix most problems in four years - a tall order for Europe's biggest economy and a creaking infrastructure.
Matching the sales of the original Switch will be a tall order, but it's fairly safe to assume demand will be high when it's released.
"It's a tall order but anything could happen in football."
But it's a tall order, with many having suffered losses of every kind in the civil war.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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