• there is no royal road to sg
• there's no royal road to it
• arduous, cumbersome, hard, laborious, ponderous, tough, troublesome
• work against the collar
• it isn't worth the trouble, not worth the candle
• to go out of one's way to
• to spare no effort, to spare no pains, to take pains
• to take the trouble to do sg
• it will more than pay the trouble
• to plough through a work
• it shall go hard but I will find them
• it shall go hard but I will find them