We now have a very tough row to hoe there.

That, as people like to say down here, was a tough row to hoe.

We have a tough row to hoe, but Baltimore knows we're in striking distance.

The navy had been a tough row to hoe.

"To attempt a serious play without any names is a tough row to hoe," he says realistically.

Internal Affairs can be a tough row to hoe.

"That doesn't mean he can't win it, but it's a tough row to hoe.

She's got a tough row to hoe, with her mother and sister and trying to make a go of the inn.

If you're seeking to make the organized more organized, it's a tough row to hoe.

For the recovering alcohol abuser, it's a tough row to hoe."

"But they've got a tough row to hoe."

Well, it's a long story, but to shorten it up: first-time novelists have a tough row to hoe.

A tough row to hoe, yes.

There is no question that Gene has had a harder, tougher row to hoe than any of his immediate predecessors."

"Once we hit the July Fourth weekend," he conceded, "it was a much tougher row to hoe.

Even if Summers were a guileful and calculating figure with a hidden agenda of drastic change, he would have a tough row to hoe.

There are those who would argue that the homeless woman has a tougher row to hoe than Ms. Ephron does.

The thing is, as a designer, if all you can offer is a time-saving way to get pretty good design, that's a tough row to hoe.

"They've got a tough row to hoe," Mr. Ray said of the lawyers for the Miami relatives.

For the longest time, home gardeners who loved tomatoes had a tough row to hoe, wrestling with persnickety, disease-prone plants.

If the good intentions and pricey infrastructure were not matched by remarkable food and service, Blue Hill would have a tough row to hoe.

Diversification has been "a tough row to hoe," Mr. Pai said, because so much of the state's public resources are devoted to tourism.

"I've even tried to adapt some of the classic recipes of my old idol Father Caparizzi, but it's a tough row to hoe."

And Mr. Leistman said, "When you're challenging a statute as unconstitutional, you've got a tough row to hoe."

"They have a tough row to hoe in convincing people that country music is really, seriously Democrat friendly," Mr. Willman said.