"have one's work cut out" meaning in English

See have one's work cut out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: has one's work cut out [present, singular, third-person], having one's work cut out [participle, present], had one's work cut out [participle, past], had one's work cut out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> one's work cut out}} have one's work cut out (third-person singular simple present has one's work cut out, present participle having one's work cut out, simple past and past participle had one's work cut out)
  1. Alternative form of have one's work cut out for one Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: have one's work cut out for one
    Sense id: en-have_one's_work_cut_out-en-verb-A4xUYcrb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> one's work cut out"
      },
      "expansion": "have one's work cut out (third-person singular simple present has one's work cut out, present participle having one's work cut out, simple past and past participle had one's work cut out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "have one's work cut out for one"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of have one's work cut out for one"
      ],
      "id": "en-have_one's_work_cut_out-en-verb-A4xUYcrb",
      "links": [
        [
          "have one's work cut out for one",
          "have one's work cut out for one#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have one's work cut out"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had one's work cut out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> one's work cut out"
      },
      "expansion": "have one's work cut out (third-person singular simple present has one's work cut out, present participle having one's work cut out, simple past and past participle had one's work cut out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "have one's work cut out for one"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of have one's work cut out for one"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "have one's work cut out for one",
          "have one's work cut out for one#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have one's work cut out"
}

Download raw JSONL data for have one's work cut out meaning in English (1.1kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (142890b and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.