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hard

1. mod. fermented, as with cider. (see also hard liquor.) This juice got hard. What shall I do with it?

2. mod. having to do with an addictive drug. (Compare this with soft.) Hard drugs are easier to get than ever before.

3. mod. tough. (Akin to hardhearted; hard as nails.) Only the hard guys get through basic training.

See:

• a hard egg to crack
• a hard nut
• a hard nut to crack
• a hard pill to swallow
• a hard row to hoe
• a hard time
• a hard-on
• a tough nut
• at someone's heels
• be (as) hard as nails
• be a hard act to follow
• be as hard as nails
• be hard hit (by something)
• be hard on
• be hard pressed
• be hard put
• be hard up
• be hard-pressed
• between a rock and a hard place
• bigger they are, the harder they fall
• bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
• cold cash
• cold, hard cash
• come down hard
• come down hard on someone
• come down on
• didn't care too hard
• die hard
• do the hard way
• do the hard yards
• drive a hard bargain
• fall on hard times
• feel hard done-by
• find (something) out the hard way
• first hundred years are the hardest
• first step is always the hardest
• give (one) a hard time
• give a hard time
• go hard or go home
• go hard with
• go hard with (someone)
• Good men are scarce
• hard
• hard act to follow
• hard and fast
• hard as a motherfucker
• hard as a rock
• hard as nails
• hard at
• hard bargain
• hard by
• hard case
• hard cases make bad laws
• hard cash
• Hard cheddar!
• Hard cheese!
• hard coin
• hard done-by
• hard feelings
• hard going
• hard hat
• hard head
• hard hit, be
• hard knocks
• hard line
• Hard lines
• hard liquor
• hard luck
• hard nut to crack
• hard of hearing
• hard off
• hard on
• hard on heels
• hard on the eyes
• hard on the heels of
• hard pass
• hard pressed
• hard put
• hard put to
• hard put, be
• hard sell
• hard sledding
• hard time
• hard to believe
• hard to swallow
• hard to take
• hard up
• hard way, the
• Hard words break no bones
• hard yards
• hard-boiled
• hard-core
• harder than the back of God's head
• hardheaded
• hard-luck story
• hard-nosed
• hard-on
• have a hard head
• have a hard time
• have a hard-on
• have a hard-on for someone
• hit hard
• learn ( the hard way
• learn the hard way
• make hard work of
• no hard and fast rules
• no hard feelings
• not any hard feelings
• Old habits die hard
• on the heels of
• play hard to get
• put in a hard day at work
• put the hard word on someone
• put the make on
• put the make on someone
• rode hard and put away wet
• school of hard knocks
• take a hard line
• take a long hard look at
• take a long, hard look at
• The bigger they are, the harder they fall
• the bigger they come, the harder they fall
• the hard sell
• the hard stuff
• the school of hard knocks
• think long and hard
• tough act to follow
• tough as nails
• tough row to hoe
• work smarter, not harder