Idiom
give someone a hard time
Meaning
To cause difficulty or make trouble for someone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please stop giving me a hard time about my mistake.”
“My boss gave me a hard time because I arrived at the office ten minutes late.”
“Although he had worked diligently to finish the project, his colleagues continued to give him a hard time regarding the minor errors in the final report.”
Examples
simple
“Please stop giving me a hard time about my mistake.”
contextual
“My boss gave me a hard time because I arrived at the office ten minutes late.”
complex
“Although he had worked diligently to finish the project, his colleagues continued to give him a hard time regarding the minor errors in the final report.”
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