go hard with

Idioms  

1. Fare ill, be to one's harm or disadvantage. For example, If this case gets to a jury, it will go hard with the defendant. [First half of 1500s]

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Example Sentences

We wanted to be aggressive, but we didn't have a plan to go hard with verbal stuff.

From BBC

If you don't trust yourself not to go hard with the scrubbing, it's also totally fine to skip this step altogether.

From Salon

At the weekend, Ardern showed she is capable of matching kindness with steely resolve, announcing New Zealand would “go early and go hard”, with immediate border controls requiring all entrants to the country to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival.

From The Guardian

I play a little bit of everything during that first hour so I can determine what people are gravitating toward and then go hard with that later.

From New York Times

“You can either go hard or not go hard with those final slots,” Brannen said.

From New York Times