Phrase thesaurus
Hard Phrases
241 phrases and expressions related to "hard".
Phrases
- A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
- A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
- Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
- As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
- As hard as a rock
- As hard as iron
- As hard as nails
- As solid as a rock
- As solid as an oak
- As solid as the ground we walk on
- As tough as old boots
- As tough as they come
- As tough as tough
- Awkward age
- Awkward squad
- Be hard put to
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Blow hard
- Built Ford tough (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
- Cast iron alibi
- Cast iron guarantee
- Come down hard on
- Cracklin' Rosie (Neil Diamond song)
- Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
- Diamond Dogs (David Bowie song)
- Diamond Jim (Nickname of James Brady)
- Diamond geezer
- Diamond in the rough
- Die hard
- 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)
- Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
- Drive a hard bargain
- Fall on hard times
- Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
- Go hard
- Go hard or go home
- 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
- Hardened offender
- Hardly ever
- Hold hard
- Hurry hard
- I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (The Beatles song lyric)
- I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
- Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
- Iron Mike (Nickname of Mike Tyson)
- Iron fist in velvet glove
- Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
- Iron out
- Iron out the wrinkles
- 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 tough at the top
- Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan song)
- 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)
- Play hard to get
- Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
- Pump iron
- Put in the hard yards
- Put the hard word on
- Rest up (take a break from one's arduous efforts)
- Rock solid
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Rough diamond
- Rule with a rod of iron
- Rule with an iron fist
- Saturday's child works hard for a living
- School of hard knocks
- Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
- Strike while the iron is hot
- Take a cold hard look
- Take a hard line
- Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
- That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
- The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
- The Diamond State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
- The Granite City (Nickname of Aberdeen Scotland)
- The Granite State (Nickname of the US state of New Hampshire)
- The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
- The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
- The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
- The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
- The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
- The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The bigger they are the harder they fall
- The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
- The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet 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
- Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
- We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
- We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
- 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?
Related
- A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- As hard as a rock
- As hard as iron
- As hard as nails
- Be hard put to
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Blow hard
- Come down hard on
- Die hard
- 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
- Fall on hard times
- Go hard
- Go hard or go home
- 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
- Hold hard
- Hurry hard
- It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
- No hard feelings
- No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
- Old habits die hard
- Play hard to get
- Put in the hard yards
- Put the hard word on
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Saturday's child works hard for a living
- School of hard knocks
- Take a cold hard look
- Take a hard line
- That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
- The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
- This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
- Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
- Working hard or hardly working?