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hard lines en · INTJ
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(dated, slang) Expressed to someone suffering misfortune.
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too bad · shame · worse luck · hard cheese · tough luck · what a pity · hard luck · hard lines · bad luck · what a shame · hard luck · bad luck · cuhdear · pity
hard lines en · NOUN
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(dated, slang, uncountable) Hardship; misfortune.
“There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.”
Captain Cuttle proffered a glass of rum […]
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC: