Contextualizebeta

tall order

noun
/ˈtɔːl ˈɔːdə/UK/ˈtɔl ˈɔɹdɚ/US

Etymology

tall (“big, large”) + order (“request”).

Definitions

  1. A big job

    A big job; a difficult challenge.

    • [W]e must come, consequently, to the impressive conclusion that to live on potatoes alone[…], a man must eat at least 30 lbs. of potato a day—which would be rather a tall order, even for an Irishman.
    • Guess they'd find it a pretty tall order trying to interfere with an American citizen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tall order. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA