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单词 hard as nails
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Example sentences from the Web for hard as nails

  • "Hard-as-nails" the girls sometimes called her, for she coddled nobody and expected the utmost from each one's capacity.

    For the Sake of the School|Angela Brazil
  • How she come to be related to that hard-as-nails Joe Stagg is a puzzler.

    Carolyn of the Corners|Ruth Belmore Endicott

hard as nails

SEE SYNONYMS FOR hard as nails ON THESAURUS.COM

Unyielding, callous, unsympathetic, as in Don't ask her for a contribution—she's hard as nails. This expression has replaced the 14th-century simile hard as flint stone and presumably alludes to the rigidity of nails.

Words nearby hard as nails

harbour seal, hard, hard act to follow, hard-and-fast, hardanger, hard as nails, hard-ass, hard-asset, hardback, hardbake, hardball
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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