单词	hardball
释义	hardball /ˈhɑːdbɔːl / noun [mass noun] North American 1Baseball, especially as contrasted with softball: when I was 14 I started playing hardball in a semi-pro league... Eyewear is required in softball and hardball, singles and doubles. Still, the White Sox were a delight, baseball players playing country hardball. Last year they moved the tournament to the Shore Racquet Club a few miles south in Somers Point and played hardball on softball courts. 1.1 informal Uncompromising and ruthless methods or dealings: the leadership played hardball to win the vote... But Angelos, one of the nation's leading labor attorneys, protracts most of his baseball negotiations, playing hardball with employees who can pursue better options. ‘They play hardball, we play softball,’ Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile added. Still, it wasn't hard to grasp the meeting's big theme, a bitter game of hardball between the haves and have-nots.
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