Talk:have a mountain to climb

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have a mountain to climb

I don't think this is really an idiom, but a metaphor instead. ---> Tooironic 09:17, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

• Keep. From google:"have a mountain to climb" and google books:"have a mountain to climb", this seems a common expression, one that, when rendered word-for-word in Czech in order to mean "To be faced with a difficult task or challenge", sound weird and non-native, and may not even be understood. The term is attestable, and it is not a semantic sum of parts. --Dan Polansky 07:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Delete. It looks like a mere multi-word metaphor to me. Moreover it is a live metaphor that can be reworded in various ways. I wonder whether it is the translation of any English expression of the general grammatical construction that would seem "weird and non-native", ie, "have a NP to V", eg "have a car to sell". DCDuring TALK 11:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Are you voting outside of CFI? Or are you saying that the term in question is a semantic sum of parts? Great many idiomatic expressions are metaphors, including "add fuel to the fire"; being a metaphor does not make a term exclusion-worthy. --Dan Polansky 15:34, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Keep, and furthermore I would personally assert that DCDuring's delete vote is despite WT:CFI. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:27, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

What part ? DCDuring TALK 14:24, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Kept as no consensus. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 19:42, 12 August 2012 (UTC)