| 单词 | hard ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard ticket hard ticket n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a person who is difficult or dangerous to deal with; an unscrupulous person; cf. hard case n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult thing or person sluta1475 nut1540 Tartar1669 bitch1699 handful1755 tickler1825 pebble1829 hard ticket1847 tough nut1862 bear1876 Roger1885 trier1893 peb1903 heller1923 pawful1925 honey1932 sod1936 toughie1945 motherfucker1948 hard-arse1966 1847 Spirit Times 15 May 132/1 Simon B***..was a ‘hard ticket’ at a bargain, as well as a scrape or frolic. 1904 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri xii. 223 ‘Old Laban Simpkins that lived 'round here one time,’ he said, ‘was a mighty hard ticket. Drank rum by the hogshead, pounded his wife till she left him, and was a tough nut gin'rally.’ 1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) ix. 234 ‘Belter’ Burns, a weasel-eyed and nasal-toned hard-ticket from the big school, was heading his way,..smoking as demonstratively as possible. < as lemmas |
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