a hard row to hoe Definition

row¹
noun

1. A number of people or things arranged in a line.

Thesaurus: sequence, series, succession, range, arrangement, file, rank, line, queue, run, course.
2. In a cinema or theatre: a line of seats.
3. A line of plants in a garden.

Example: a row of cabbages
4. Often in street-names: a street with a continuous line of houses on one or both sides.
5. math.
A horizontal arrangement of numbers, terms, etc.
6. In knitting: a complete line of stitches.

Idiom: a hard row to hoe

A difficult job or destiny.

Idiom: in a row

Forming a row.

colloq
In an unbroken sequence; in succession.
Example: three telephone calls in a row
Thesaurus: consecutively, in succession, successively.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon raw.