we were having a rough spin, with barely enough to keep us in food
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I'm having a bit of a rough spin. One or two things have gone wrong.
He knew that the unemployed were having 'a very rough spin'.
If I get my hands on you one more time, I'll give you such a rough spin of a time that you'll be bug-eyed.
Pneumonia has given the boys a very rough spin.
I remembered her as so friendly and open, and here she seemed a cold, tough woman; I guessed she must have had a rough spin.
We had a very rough spin but Fritzy got the roughest of it.
They have a pretty rough spin occasionally and get in a deuce of a state, especially when they are up with the guns.
I want to say right up front that I think I have had an incredibly rough spin from the Chair today.
She's had a rough spin, that girl; her father left her with debts so big she'll probably still owe money when she's fifty.
We quite realise that the children of dairy farming parents often have rather a rough spin, and that poverty sometimes compels the parents to throw more than is fair on children's shoulders.