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View synonyms for hard as nails
hard as nails
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Discover More
Example Sentences
How she come to be related to that hard-as-nails Joe Stagg is a puzzler.
From Project Gutenberg
"Hard-as-nails" the girls sometimes called her, for she coddled nobody and expected the utmost from each one's capacity.
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Idioms from 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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