a tall order
Examples
I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
Trying to understand women is a tall order period.
But surviving the pandemic, recession, and a rapidly aging demographic will be a tall order when the rags give us stories with the nutritional value of breathairianism.
It’s a tall order, and that’s why staying focused on practicality really matters.”
But that was a tall order, especially nowadays in the U.S. and the 30% who won't do it, not because they can't, but mostly because they don't want to.