Hardball Phrases

Phrases

• A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
• A good man is hard to find
• A hard man is good to find
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• As hard as a rock
• As hard as iron
• As hard as nails
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Be hard put to
• Behind the eight ball
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Blow hard
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Carry the ball
• Come down hard on
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Die hard
• Different ball game
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Do it the hard way
• Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
• Drive a hard bargain
• Drop the ball
• End of the ball game
• Fall on hard times
• Get the ball rolling
• Go hard
• Go hard or go home
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• Hard act to follow
• Hard and fast
• Hard aport
• Hard astarboard
• Hard at it
• Hard case
• Hard cases make bad law
• Hard cash
• Hard cheddar
• Hard cheese
• Hard copy
• Hard done by
• Hard drinker
• Hard evidence
• Hard facts
• Hard feelings
• Hard hearted
• Hard hitting
• Hard knocks
• Hard labour
• Hard lines
• Hard liquor
• Hard luck
• Hard nosed
• Hard of hearing
• Hard on
• Hard on the heels of

• Hard pressed
• Hard put to it
• Hard row to hoe
• Hard shell
• Hard stuff
• Hard times
• Hard to come by
• Hard to pin down
• Hard to place
• Hard to swallow
• Hard to take
• Hard up
• Hard words
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hard, cold cash
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• High ball
• Hold hard
• Hurry hard
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• No hard feelings
• No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
• Old habits die hard
• On the ball
• Play ball
• Play hard to get
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Play softball (A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions)
• Put in the hard yards
• Put the hard word on
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Run with the ball
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• School of hard knocks
• Spot the ball
• Start the ball rolling
• Take a cold hard look
• Take a hard line
• Take me out to the ball game
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The ball is in your court
• The belle of the ball
• The old ball and chain
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The way the ball bounces
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Working hard or hardly working?