Do you know what uphill means? Maybe if you take a look at the picture above in this post you will have an idea of what I am talking about. When you say something is uphill, it means it leads to a higher place on a slope. So when you take an uphill journey for example, you have to walk or drive in an ascending direction up a hill or slope. Kind of the same thing people are doing in the picture above I just mentioned.
But the thing is: doesn't it make you tired just by looking at those people climbing uphill? Thats because we are talking about a very daunting task that takes a lot of effort to be done. And the expression we are touching on today has a lot to do with that: an uphill battle. You can call anything challenging and not easy to do or deal with an uphill battle. Examples for difficult things can vary from person to person, but here are a few examples:
- It has been an uphill battle for her to get an education.
- Convincing the senator to see our point of view was an uphill battle, but we finally succeeded.
- It is an uphill battle to get the children to bed at night.
- It was an uphill battle getting here.
- Resolving the problem was an uphill battle.
Like you see on the title, battle is just one of many options to go with uphill. You can also say uphill fight, uphill struggle/fight/job/etc without affecting its meaning. That is all for now. Take care!
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