rough it
English
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)
- (colloquial) To endure hard living conditions; to live without ordinary comforts.
- Coordinate term: tough out
- Out in the backwoods with only a tent and no radio or plumbing, they were really roughing it.
- 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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