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Meanings of hard knocks in English
Catalan
adversitat Usage of hard knocks in English
1
Shasta cried only a very little; he was used to hard knocks.
2
A few pinches, kicks and slaps; at worst a few hard knocks.
3
We went through the same school of hard knocks together-allof us.
4
As for the luckless idols, they received more hard knocks than supplications.
5
I got some pretty hard knocks, too, while I was doing it.
6
But the management school of hard knocks includes a lot of beginners' mistakes.
7
He then forgets all the bruises and all the hard knocks.
8
These bumps and hard knocks do not break the fiddle-theyturn the pegs.
9
They gave their audiences hard words, and often received hard knocks in return.
10
The entrepreneurial journey is scattered with unforeseen obstacles, devastating let-downs and hard knocks.
11
You girls are as bad as boys about getting hard knocks.
12
There is little to be got from them but hard knocks.
13
He is very hard on other people, and deals hard knocks.
14
If I received some hard knocks from your kin, Mrs. Hilland-
15
But she had a very sensitive nature, which could not endure hard knocks.
16
I've never seen any woman stand up to hard knocks as you do.
This collocation consists of:
Hard knocks through the time
Hard knocks across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common