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hard nail en · NOUN
Meanings
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(figuratively) A strong person, in character and physique.
"He's a hard nail, is Jack, and a dead shot, too, but you can't leave a Grand National winner to die like that - what?"
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, nail: for example, a steel nail that is hardened.
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hard as nails