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A
Hard
Day's Night ( Beatles song and movie )
A big ask
A bridge too far
A good man is
hard
to find
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A
hard
man is good to find
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A tight corner
A two pipe problem
Above my head
Adversity makes strange bedfellows
Alpha Mom ( an
ambitious
mother who aims to excel at work while raising children )
American Home has an edifice
complex
( American Home Magazine advertising slogan )
An uphill battle
As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
As
hard
as a rock
As
hard
as iron
As
hard
as nails
As
stubborn
as a mule
As
tough
as old boots
As
tough
as they come
As
tough
as
tough
Awkward
age
Awkward
squad
Be
hard
put to
Be under no illusion
Between a rock and a
hard
place
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Blow
hard
Built Ford
tough
( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Bumpy ride
By the balls
Come down
hard
on
Come wind come weather
Complex
fracture ( a multiple fracture )
Complex
number ( a number containing real and imaginary parts )
Complex
sentence ( a sentence containing subordinate clauses )
Counsel of perfection
Curve ball ( a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology )
Cut a hog
Dickens of a time
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 )
Don't get a complex, get Amplex ( Amplex Deodorant advertising slogan )
Donkey work
Drive a
hard
bargain
Easier said than done
Fall on
hard
times
Go
hard
Go
hard
or go home
Good morning, Mr. Phelps ( A catchphrase from Mission
Impossible
)
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
Have a cross to bear
Have your work cut out for you
Heavy duty
Heavy going
Heavy weather
Hold
hard
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a
thankless
child?
Hurry
hard
I can't do this
Impossible
is nothing ( Adidas advertising slogan )
In a hole
In a jam
In a spot
Inferiority
complex
It takes a
tough
man to make a tender chicken ( Perdue Farms advertising slogan )
It's a jungle out there
It's been a
hard
day's night, and I'd been working like a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
It's complicated ( Facebook relationship status )
It's
tough
at the top
Keep your head above water
Learning difficulties
Like herding cats
Like looking for a needle in a haystack
Like pulling teeth
Like trying to nail jello to a wall
Make heavy weather of
Make life difficult
Mission
Impossible
( Tom Cruise movie and television series title )
No
hard
feelings
No
hard
feelings ( An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute )
No mean feat
Not a chinaman's chance
Not
impossible
Old habits die
hard
One
Tough
( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
Out of your depth
Over your head
Play
hard
to get
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or act
tough
or aggressive )
Poisoned chalice
Pretty kettle of fish
Pretty pickle
Put in the
hard
yards
Put the
hard
word on
Raise the bar
Rode
hard
and put away wet
Rough ride
Saturday's child works
hard
for a living
School of
hard
knocks
Selling sand to Arabs
Selling snow to Eskimos
Some assembly required
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word ( Elton John song )
Sticky situation
Sticky wicket
Stiff competition
Take a cold
hard
look
Take a
hard
line
Tall order
Tall task
Thankless
task
That Friday feeling ( anticipation of the weekend after a
hard
working week )
The difficult we do immediately; the
impossible
takes a little longer
The judgement of Solomon
The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
These little things are sent to try us
This
Hard
Land ( Bruce Springsteen song )
This tape will self-destruct in five seconds ( A catchphrase from Mission
Impossible
)
To make that
tough
job easier - you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
Tongue twister
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
Tricky
Dicky ( Nickname of Richard Nixon )
Two steps forward and one step back
Up against it
When the going gets tough, the
tough
get going ( A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy )
When the going gets tough, the
tough
go shopping
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Work hard. Fly right ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
Working
hard
or hardly working?
Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... ( A catchphrase from Mission
Impossible
)