have a thin time

have a thin time (of it)

(British & Australian)

to experience a difficult period, often because you do not have enough money Rob lost his job last year and they've been having a thin time of it.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Abdul	-	Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Freyja	FRAY-ah (Norse Mythology)	Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Emmerson	EM-ər-sən	English (Rare)
Shemer	-	Biblical
Abdollah	-	Persian
Kamila	kah-MI-lah (Czech, Slovak), kah-MEE-lah (Polish)	Czech, Slovak, Polish