(literally) The job is a particularly difficult and undesirable one. / (colloquial, ironic, humorous) The role or assignment is a particularly attractive or desirable one.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kick a dog when it's down

present participle of kick a dog when it's down

(nonstandard, pseudo-Italian) It's (it is).

A response to an anterior quantitative value or an anterior comment of it, used to say that something can be thought of in opposite ways depending on what one compares it to.

(colloquial, usually with a following present participle or infinitive expression) Used to indicate that the specified action cannot succeed or offers no advantage if successful

It is easy to lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially related to the original goal.

At any cost; for certain; indicates the speaker is determined, resolute in doing something.

(UK) A phrase suggesting that the standard of life in the north of England is poor compared to that in the south.

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) What I am telling you is true.