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"things were rough" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to indicate a difficult situation or a period of adversity. For example: "After the storm, things were rough for the townspeople, but eventually they managed to rebuild."
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If it's not one thing, it's another.
When one thing goes wrong, then another, and another..
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Things were rough, very rough".
The Aftermath At home on Rochester's northwest side, things were rough.
In Mr. Piazza's telling, things were rough with Mr. Hudson almost from the start.
Things were rough and goods were scarce.
If things were rough politically, they weren't any smoother at home.
We became family because we sweat together, competed together as a team, were there for each other when things were rough and when things were great.
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I never want to tell them when things are rough.
Private clients have been his biggest source of revenue, but things are rough right now (he has been supporting himself with his Social Security checks).
But it felt a bit unsettling to be reveling in these tunes, lively or lamenting, without some acknowledgment that things are rough in Istanbul at the moment.
The people who run this Bronx soup kitchen and an adjoining food pantry do not need economic analyses to tell them things are rough.
Yes, things are rough all over, whether in Buffalo (where the jobless rate is 10.5percentt), New Orleans (11percentt), San Diego (10.3percentt) or Jacksonville (11percentt), where the Jaguars are in danger of multiple blackouts.
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