take doing

Require considerable effort, as in It'll take doing to get the whole house painted in a week. This expression sometimes is put as take some doing, as in You want the President to come? That'll take some doing! [First half of 1900s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shu	-	Chinese
Bhaskara	-	Hinduism
Irene	ie-REEN (English), ie-REE-nee (English), ee-RE-ne (Italian), EE-re-ne (Finnish), ee-RE-nu (German)	English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Ancient Greek (L
Forbes	['fɔ:bz]
Ayumu	ah-yoo-moo	Japanese
AndrÉA	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)