very+hard

  • 31hard as nails — CALLOUS, hard hearted, heartless, unfeeling, unsympathetic, uncaring, insensitive, unsentimental, hardbitten, tough, lacking compassion. → nail * * * hard as nails 1. Very hard 2. Callous 3. Very tough • • • Main Entry: ↑hard hard as nails 1. In… …

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  • 32Very Bad Deaths — infobox Book | name = Very Bad Deaths title orig = translator = image caption = author = Spider Robinson cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction, Speculative fiction novel publisher = Baen Books… …

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  • 33hard — /hahrd/, adj., harder, hardest, adv., harder, hardest, n. adj. 1. not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable. 2. firmly formed; tight: a hard knot. 3. difficult to do or accomplish;… …

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  • 34hard — [[t]hɑrd[/t]] adj. and adv. er, est. 1) not soft; solid and firm to the touch 2) firmly formed; tight: a hard knot[/ex] 3) difficult to do or accomplish; fatiguing; troublesome: a hard task[/ex] 4) difficult or troublesome with respect to an… …

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  • 35hard sell — noun forceful and insistent advertising • Hypernyms: ↑advertising, ↑publicizing * * * noun : aggressive high pressure selling or salesmanship often used with the everyone had keyed himself up to the hard sell Business Week compare soft sell * * * …

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  • 36hard up — also hard up ADJ GRADED If you are hard up, you have very little money. [INFORMAL] Her parents were very hard up. Ant: well off …

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  • 37hard row to hoe — or[tough row to hoe] {n. phr.} A hard life to live; a very hard job to do. * /She has a hard row to hoe with six children and her husband dead./ * /Young people without enough education will have a tough row to hoe when they have to support… …

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  • 38hard row to hoe — or[tough row to hoe] {n. phr.} A hard life to live; a very hard job to do. * /She has a hard row to hoe with six children and her husband dead./ * /Young people without enough education will have a tough row to hoe when they have to support… …

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  • 39hard to take — difficult to believe. The reports that this extremely successful company is near bankruptcy are very hard to take. The humiliation of her son s crime was very hard to take …

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  • 40hard beech — noun tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood • Syn: ↑Nothofagus truncata • Hypernyms: ↑southern beech, ↑evergreen beech • Member Holonyms: ↑Nothofagus, ↑genus Nothofagus * * * …

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