I've never had such uphill work being a vamp.

It's such uphill work, and it takes such a time!

I'd got the basic information I came for; explaining why I'd wanted it was going to be uphill work.

Somebody who's always trying to do good but it's always uphill work.

But it was uphill work, and after a time he resigned the presidency and abandoned the institution to its fate.

But he warned that there was still "stiff uphill work to be done."

Social talk was definitely uphill work for me.

Discussing a case with Miss Lemon was uphill work.

She adds to this some implicit advice: "It's uphill work to get the right kind of love from a man.

But the little Doctor continued only to stare and smile, and the monologue was uphill work.