Idiom
tall order
Meaning
A big job; a difficult challenge.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Finishing this project by tomorrow is a tall order.”
“Asking the team to double their output in one week is a tall order for anyone.”
“To rebuild the entire infrastructure within such a limited budget proved to be a tall order that even the most experienced contractors hesitated to accept.”
Examples
simple
“Finishing this project by tomorrow is a tall order.”
contextual
“Asking the team to double their output in one week is a tall order for anyone.”
complex
“To rebuild the entire infrastructure within such a limited budget proved to be a tall order that even the most experienced contractors hesitated to accept.”
Origin
tall (“big, large”) + order (“request”).
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