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A
Hard
Day's Night ( Beatles song and movie )
A good man is
hard
to find
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A
hard
man is good to find
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Accept a
wooden
nickel
As
difficult
as nailing jelly to a tree
As
hard
as a rock
As
hard
as iron
As
hard
as nails
As
ugly
as sin
Awkward age
Awkward squad
Be
hard
put to
Between a rock and a
hard
place
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Big
ugly
Blow
hard
Come down
hard
on
Come to a
sticky
end
Coyote
ugly
Curve ball ( a
difficult
proposition - deriving from baseball terminology )
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 )
Does a
wooden
horse have a hickory dick?
Drive a
hard
bargain
Fall on
hard
times
Farewell to the
ugly
cigarette ( Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Go
hard
Go
hard
or go home
Group of death ( the most
difficult
or competitive group in a sports tournament )
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 )
Laboured
breathing
Make life
difficult
No
hard
feelings
No
hard
feelings ( An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute )
Old habits die
hard
Play
hard
to get
Pretty kettle of fish
Pretty pickle
Pug
ugly
Put in the
hard
yards
Put on the
wooden
overcoat
Put the
hard
word on
Rode
hard
and put away wet
Saturday's child works
hard
for a living
School of
hard
knocks
Sticky
fingers
Sticky
situation
Sticky
wicket
Take a cold
hard
look
Take a
hard
line
That Friday feeling ( anticipation of the weekend after a
hard
working week )
The Good The Bad And The
Ugly
( Clint Eastwood movie )
The
difficult
we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
The quality of mercy is not
strained
( from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare )
The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
This
Hard
Land ( Bruce Springsteen song )
Ugly
duckling
Ugly
is only skin-deep ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
Ugly
mug
Uneasy
lies the head that wears a crown
Up the
wooden
hill to Bedfordshire
While in Europe, pick up an
ugly
European ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
Win the
wooden
spoon
Wooden
Heart ( Elvis Presley song )
Work hard. Fly right ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
Working
hard
or hardly working?