hard-knock

Definitions

Examples

• Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

• But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.

• My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

• All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.

• We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.

• He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

• However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.

• And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.

• Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

• "I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.