a hard row to hoe

a hard/tough row to hoe

(American)

a difficult situation to deal with Teachers have a tough row to hoe in today's schools.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aharon	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Vasil	vah-SIL (Bulgarian)	Bulgarian, Macedonian, Georgian, Albanian
King	KING	English
Oenone	-	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Csaba	CHAW-baw	Hungarian
Afroditi	-	Greek