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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
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A hard man is good to find
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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
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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
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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 )
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?