Word.ws English Dictionary

took some doing

took some doing is the simple past of take some doing.

Meaning of take some doing

Verb

take some doing (third-person singular simple present takes some doing, present participle taking some doing, simple past took some doing, past participle taken some doing)

  1. To be hard work, to require a lot of effort.

Questions about took some doing

What is took some doing the simple past of?
Took some doing is the simple past of take some doing.

Words near took some doing in the dictionary

  1. took sides
  2. took silk
  3. took slave
  4. took soil
  5. took some beating
  6. took some doing
  7. took someone at their word
  8. took someone down the garden path
  9. took someone for all they've got
  10. took someone to the grave
  11. took someone up short

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: took some doing (page history and authors); take some doing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “took some doing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/took_some_doing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.