Alternative forms

• rough it out

Verb

rough it (third-person singular simple present roughs it, present participle roughing it, simple past and past participle roughed it)Category:English lemmas#ROUGHITCategory:English verbs#ROUGHITCategory:English terms with placeholder %22it%22#ROUGHITCategory:English multiword terms#ROUGHITCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROUGHITCategory:Pages with entries#ROUGH%20ITCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ROUGH%20IT

1. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#ROUGHIT) To endure hard living conditions; to live without ordinary comforts.

   Hyponyms: live rough, sleep rough

   Coordinate term: tough it outCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#ROUGH%20IT

   Out in the backwoods with only a tent and no radio or plumbing, they were really roughing it.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROUGHIT

   • 1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I (Cambridge), page 31:

     I agree that boys ought to rough it; but when a boy is lame and very delicate, he roughs it sufficiently if he leaves home.

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