hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English idioms
are you ready let's begin
the and one more idiom before this lesson is
over how about this one have you heard a tough row to hoe have you ever heard
that what do you think that means hmm I think what it means actually I
know what it means what it means is something difficult you have done
something that was difficult so you say that was a tough road to hoe right or he
had a tough road to hoe something like that now what does that mean if we break
it down look at a garden a vegetable garden all the vegetables are in a nice
long straight row row after row with a little space in between the rows for the
person the gardener to walk down well if you want to keep the weeds down you have
to take a whole it's a handheld tool a long handle kind of like a shovel with
the Spade bent back and you use that to chop up the dirt in between the rows of
vegetables right that's called hoeing and the tool is
called a hole right so if you have a garden and it's difficult to hold that
row because of oh say roots rocks things like that then that's a tough row to hoe
it's a difficult row to hoe there you go it's a tough row to hoe it was a tough
row to hoe a difficult road a hole but we'd say top okay that's it for the
idioms in this lesson thank you for watching this video and I look forward
to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye for now