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rough passage
noun
- a stormy sea journey
- a difficult or testing time
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After a rough passage at the start, by the election year Truman actually had a pretty good economy.
On this rough passage, perhaps the most distressing spot was "Windy Lake," a small but tempestuous sheet.
We had an unusually long and rough passage of sixteen hours, and I was fearfully ill the whole time.
The Vectis took the nurses across the Mediterranean, and a terribly rough passage they had.
It was a decidedly rough passage, especially on the curves through the rocky walls of "Yankee Jim's Canyon."
The gap terminated in a rocky gateway, leading into a rough passage upward, between two precipitous mountains.
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