tall order

1. 1.

   a formidable task or requirement

   “finishing in time was a tall order but we did it”

   Synonymslarge order

   Broaderundertaking

Questions about tall order

What does tall order mean?

tall order means "a formidable task or requirement".

What is another word for tall order?

Close synonyms include large order. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tall order a common word?

tall order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.