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Meanings of hard nut in English

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Usage of hard nut in English
1
That will be a hard nut for them to crack, I'm thinking.
The Hunt Ball Mystery
2
But now came the hard nut within, and how hard it was!
An American Robinson Crusoe
3
And even this India will be a hard nut to crack.
The Half-Hearted
4
It was a hard nut, and would take some getting through.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
5
Burnside is likely to find it a hard nut to crack.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
6
Slade is the one real hard nut for the Three Bar to crack.
The Settling of the Sage
7
Your little daughter has given me a hard nut to crack.
The Bent Twig
8
He would be a hard nut for a novelist to crack.
The Masques of Ottawa
9
Altogether it looked as if Bill was a pretty hard nut.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son / Being the Letters...
10
It is rather a hard nut to crack-CharlesSchwab's being stupid.
The Ghost in the White House / Some suggestions as to how a hund...
11
He is a hard nut, that commissariat officer, as you'll see.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
12
A hard nut; but hard nuts are usually sound ones.
Initials Only
13
The Declaration of Independence was a hard nut to crack.
Children of the Market Place
14
The Germans were proving a right hard nut to crack.
Burned Bridges
15
This was indeed a hard nut for Margari to crack.
The Poor Plutocrats
16
This hill, sir, will be a hard nut for the brown men to crack.
Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines; or, Following the Flag agai...
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