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[VP; impers]
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⇒ s.o. finds himself in a difficult situation (often in refer, to having to work very hard to make a living, learn sth., accomplish sth. etc):
- X-y туго придется••≈ things will be difficult (rough, tight etc) for X;
- X will have a hard (rough, tough etc) time;
- X will have it rough (tough);
- X will have his share of troubles;
- X is in for a rough time ( a rough ride);
- [in refer, to financial hardships only] X will be hard up.
♦ Уходя из дома, она [Людмила] не взяла с собой кружку, не взяла хлеба; казалось, что она всю дорогу не будет ни есть, ни пить.Но на пароходе... ей мучительно захотелось есть, и Людмила поняла, что ей круто придется (Гроссман 2). She [Lyudmila] hadn't brought a mug or even any bread, she had thought she wouldn't want to eat or drink during the journey. On the steamer, however, she had felt desperately hungry ..and had realized that things were going to be difficult (2a)
♦ У самой Аны детей не было. Зато у ее трех братьев и двух сестер было в общей сложности 44 ребенка... Ана сказала, что... большинство из них, вырастая, хотят иметь высшее образование, и ее братьям и сестрам приходится туго - им нужно много работать, чтобы дети имели высшее образование (Лимонов 1). Ana herself had no children. But all in all her three brothers and two sisters had forty-four children. ...Ana said that...most of them, as they grew up, wanted to have a higher education, and things were tight for her brothers and sisters - they had to work very hard so that the children could have more education (1a).
♦ Советский паспорт, советское гражданство... Сколько возвышенных слов сочинено о том, какая честь быть гражданином СССР. Честь, конечно, большая, но туго приходится тем, кто пытается от нее отказаться (Войнович 1). A Soviet passport, Soviet citizenship. ...How many exalted words have been written about the honor it is to be a citizen of the USSR. It is, of course, a great honor, but anyone who tries to renounce it is in for a rough time (1a).
♦ Сначала им [табачнику Коле и его жене Даше] пришлось довольно туго, но потом, во времена нэпа, персидский коммерсант снова открыл свою кофейню-кондитерскую, на этот раз осторожно назвав ее "Кейфующий пролетарий". Он взял в долю бывшего табачника... (Искандер 3). At first they [the tobacco merchant Kolya and his wife Dasha] were rather hard up. Then, during the era of the New Economic Policy, the Persian merchant opened his coffeehouse and bake shop again - this time cautiously naming it the Idle Proletariat - and took on the former tobacco merchant as partner (3a).