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hard tack

noun

  1. informal,  whisky

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He recounts the story of Pinocchio’s creation and truancy; he records his own fish-confined madness and despair; he continues to make art, painting portraits of lost loves and fashioning filial surrogates — lifeless, alas — out of old hard tack and shards of crockery.

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But it has taken a hard tack in its response to the pandemic to try to prevent the rapid spread seen in North America and elsewhere, becoming among the first in the region to bar entry of Americans.

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Another compared the crust to “hard tack.”

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When she sipped the broth, she smiled and asked for “hard tack,” or pilot bread.

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When she sipped the broth, she smiled and asked for “hard tack,” or pilot bread.

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