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A
Hard
Day's Night ( Beatles song and movie )
A big ask
A chain is only as
strong
as its weakest link
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A good man is
hard
to find
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A
hard
man is good to find
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A man's man
Adult entertainment ( euphemism for sexual or
violent
entertainment )
As
difficult
as nailing jelly to a tree
As
hard
as a rock
As
hard
as iron
As
hard
as nails
As
strong
as an ox
As tough as old boots
As tough as they come
As tough as tough
Be
hard
put to
Between a rock and a
hard
place
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Bit of
rough
Blow
hard
Boot camp
Born 1820 - Still going
strong
( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
Built Ford tough ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Come down
hard
on
Curve ball ( a
difficult
proposition - deriving from baseball terminology )
Cut up
rough
Diamond in the
rough
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Die
hard
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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 )
Dogged determination
Drive a
hard
bargain
Fall on
hard
times
Far From The Madding Crowd ( Thomas
Hardy
book )
For those who like the trade
rough
( Travis aftershave advertising slogan )
Go
hard
Go
hard
or go home
Going
strong
Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and
strong
( Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan )
Group of death ( the most
difficult
or competitive group in a sports tournament )
Hang tough
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
Hardy
ha ha
Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into ( A catchphrase from Laurel And
Hardy
)
Hold
hard
Hurry
hard
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken ( Perdue Farms advertising slogan )
It's been a
hard
day's night, and I'd been working like a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
It's how the smooth take the
rough
( Range Rover advertising slogan )
It's tough at the top
Kiss me
Hardy
( Admiral Nelson quotation )
Live
rough
Macho man
Make life
difficult
No
hard
feelings
No
hard
feelings ( An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute )
Old habits die
hard
One Tough ( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
Out of the
strong
came forth sweetness ( Lyle's Golden Syrup advertising slogan )
Play
hard
to get
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive )
Put in the
hard
yards
Put the
hard
word on
Rode
hard
and put away wet
Rough
and ready
Rough
and tumble
Rough
around the edges
Rough
diamond
Rough
justice
Rough
landing
Rough
out
Rough
ride
Rough
stuff
Rough
trade
Rough
up
Saturday's child works
hard
for a living
School of
hard
knocks
Sleep
rough
So round, so firm, so fully packed ( Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Soft,
strong
and very long ( Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan )
Strong
in the arm and thick in the head
Strong
medicine
Strong
stomach
Strong, silent type
Take a cold
hard
look
Take a
hard
line
Take the
rough
with the smooth
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles ( Thomas
Hardy
book )
That Friday feeling ( anticipation of the weekend after a
hard
working week )
The Boston
Strong
Boy ( Nickname of John L. Sullivan )
The
difficult
we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong
( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
There's never a
rough
puff in a lucky ( Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan )
This
Hard
Land ( Bruce Springsteen song )
To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
Tough Juice ( Nickname of Caron Butler )
Tough customer
Tough love
Tough luck
Tough nut to crack
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime ( Tony Blair political slogan )
Tough pill to swallow
Tough row to hoe
Tough shit
Tough titty
True grit
Video nasty ( a
violent
or horrific video )
When the going gets tough, the tough get going ( A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy )
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
Work hard. Fly right ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
Working
hard
or hardly working?
Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred,
strong
in the arm and weak in the head