Synonyms for hard knocks
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of hard knocks
- noun adverse circumstances
- The minstrel, like the fighters, revels in hard knocks and rough jests.
- Extract from : « The Balladists » by John Geddie
- That is where the ball is, and there are the keen players to be met, and the glory and the hard knocks to be got.
- Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes
- Of course there would be some hard knocks, but he expected that, for he was going to rough it!
- Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
- We went through the same school of hard knocks together—all of us.
- Extract from : « Anchorite » by Randall Garrett
- Soldiers deal in hard knocks, and they must expect to get some back in return.
- Extract from : « Charge! » by George Manville Fenn
- Circumstance has received some hard knocks from men and women of this type.
- Extract from : « The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit » by Ralph Waldo Trine
- You have yet, by dint of hard knocks and buffets, to learn the world.
- Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill
- His late opponent was yet a little dazed by the hard knocks he had received.
- Extract from : « Sixes and Sevens » by O. Henry
- He had had some hard knocks and had seen plenty of rough playing.
- Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- I had some hard knocks, as regards storms and other misadventures in various places.
- Extract from : « My Life » by Josiah Flynt
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- based on hard data
- based on hard facts
- be hard up
- between a rock and a hard place
- blowhard
- came down hard on
- case-harden
- case-hardened
- casehardened
- casehardening
- casehardenings
- casehardens
- cold hard facts
- come down hard on
- computer hardware
- die-hard
- die-hardism
- diehard
- dying hard
- foolhardy
- gave a hard time
- gave hard time
- give a hard time
- hadst hard feelings
- hard
- hard and fast
- hard-and-fast
- hard as nail
- hard as nails
- hard-as-nails
- hard ball
- hard-bitten
- hard bitten
- hard-boiled
- hard by
- hard candy
- hard cash
- hard cheese
- hard copy
- hard core
- hard-core
- hard core rock
- hard disk
- hard disk drive
- hard drink
- hard drinker
- hard drinking
- hard drive
- hard-driving
- hard drug
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- hard fact
- hard facts
- hard fast
- hard-featured
- hard feelings
- hard fisted
- hard-fisted
- hard freeze
- hard frost
- hard goods
- hard-handed
- hard hat
- hard headed
- hard-headed
- hard hearing
- hard-hearted
- hard-heartedness
- hard-hitting
- hard knock
- hard knocks
- hard labor
- hard lenses
- hard life
- hard-line
- hard line
- hard lines
- hard liquor
- hard liquors
- hard luck
- hard luck guy
- hard-luck guy
- hard lucks
- hard master
- hard news
- hard nosed
- hard-nosed/hardheaded
- hard nut to crack
- hard of hearing
- hard-of-hearing aid
- hard on the eyes
- hard please
- hard plight
- hard porn
- hard-pressed
- hard pull
- hard put
- hard rock
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- hard shell
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- hard to use
- hard truth
- hard up
- hard use
- hard way
- hard ways
- hard wear
- hard-wearing
- hard-won
- hard-work
- hard work
- hard worker
- hard working
- hard-working
- hardbitten
- hardboiled
- hardcore
- hardcover
- hardened
- hardened to
- hardening
- hardest
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- hardfisted
- hardgoods
- hardhat
- hardhead
- hardheaded
- hardheadedness
- hardhearted
- hardheartedly
- hardheartedness
- hardihood
- hardily
- hardiness
- harding
- hardlier
- hardliest
- hardline
- hardly
- hardly any
- hardly at all
- hardly enough
- hardly ever
- hardly noticeable
- hardly possible
- hardness of heart
- hardnosed
- hards
- hardshell
- hardshi
- hardship
- hardship tale
- hardships
- hardtack
- hardtop
- hardware
- hardwood
- hardworking
- hardy
- has hard feelings
- have hard feelings
- knock
- knock about
- knock about/knock around
- knock around
- knock around with
- knock back
- knock block off
- knock bottom out
- knock bottom out of
- knock chip off one shoulder
- knock chip off shoulder
- knock cold
- knock dead
- knock down
- knock down and drag out
- knock-down-drag-out
- knock-down drag-out
- knock down drag out
- knock down drag outs
- knock down price
- knock 'em dead
- knock em dead
- knock for a loop
- knock high horse
- knock it off
- knock-off
- knock off
- knock off high horse
- knock offs
- knock-on
- knock-on effect
- knock-on effects
- knock on wood
- knock one's socks off
- knock one socks off
- knock oneself out
- knock ons
- knock out
- knock over
- knock over with feather
- knock props from under
- knock props out
- knock senseless
- knock socks off
- knock someone's socks off
- knock the bottom out of
- knock the chip off one's shoulder
- knock the chip off shoulder
- knock the chip shoulder
- knock together
- knock unconscious
- knock up
- knockabout
- knockback
- knockdown
- knockdowns
- knocked about
- knocked around with
- knocked chip ones shoulder
- knocked 'em dead
- knocked em dead
- knocked for a loop
- knocked off
- knocked off high horse
- knocked one socks off
- knocked out
- knocked over
- knocked senseless
- knocked socks off
- knocked the chip one's shoulder
- knocked together
- knocked up
- knocked-up
- knockedup
- knocker
- knocking around with
- knocking back
- knocking chip off one's shoulder
- knocking chip off ones shoulder
- knocking chip ones shoulder
- knocking down
- knocking downs
- knocking 'em dead
- knocking em dead
- knocking off high horse
- knocking one socks off
- knocking socks off
- knocking the chip off shoulder
- knocking the chip one shoulder
- knockoff
- knockon effects
- knockout
- knockout blow
- knockout drops
- knockout pills
- knocks about
- knocks around
- knocks around with
- knocks chip one's shoulder
- knocks em dead
- knocks 'em dead
- knocks ones socks off
- knocks over
- knocks props out from under
- knocks socks off
- knocks the chip off one's shoulder
- knocks the chip one's shoulder
- knocks together
- knocksed props out from under
- knockses props out from under
- knocksing props out from under
- orchard
- orchards
- Richard Roe
- shard
- take it hard
- takes hard
- technical knockout
- the hard way
- the knocks
- work hard
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