Hard TimesOne worth keeping
“Two bulls lockin' horns just tear up the pasture till the calves go hungry.”
Canada's counter-tariffs on the US drag out a trade war that pinches both sides.
In the same vein
All Hard Times →A tough job that only gets done one painful foot at a time.
Fend for yourself, because nobody's coming to feed you.
Can't take from someone what they simply don't have.
Life alternates between hitting and being hit.
Everything's going wrong in both directions at once.
Fix it, stretch it, or learn to live with the hole.