rough it

Do without the usual comforts and conveniences, as in We spent our vacation roughing it in a log cabin. This idiom was first recorded in 1768. Mark Twain used it as the title of an account of his experiences in Nevada (Roughing It, 1872).

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For those campers willing to rough it a bit, it’s an A-plus choice.

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"I don't think you can realize how rough it is, how devastating is until you see it," Trump said.

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“I don’t think you can realize how how rough it is, how devastating it is, until you see it,” he said.

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Sandro Morales-Santoro, a composer and Night Temple performer who worked on the Netflix hit “Outer Banks” and Hulu’s “Good Trouble,” acknowledged how rough it’s been for many L.A. film composers in the grip of several ongoing industry crises.

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“Then you see all these people out here helping each other. ... Everything’s going to be fine because we have each other, but it’s just going to be really, really rough. It is a mess.”

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