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View synonyms for hard knocks

hard knocks

[ hahrd noks ]

plural noun

  1. adversity or hardships:

    Wouldn't it be lovely to be able to learn life's hard lessons without life's hard knocks?

    Growing up in the Depression, my grandfather had his share of hard knocks.



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Example Sentences

Parents sometimes have an attitude of, “I was brought up in the school of hard knocks, no one babied me.”

People view it as a career of … some hard knocks,” he said in his retirement conference, “But I got to play.

Parole femmine, fatti maschi, and the logic of events isn't altogether words; it's full of hard knocks, too.

We may expect the minor moralities to suffer while the major moralities are being determined by hard knocks.

Molire, like most successful men, had a good many enemies, and was accustomed to give and receive very hard knocks.

Best of all, the Prince loved her, and she had no more hard knocks and cross words.

He comprehends what difficulties mean, having had his own hard knocks.

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