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Definition of the day : « hard knocks »
- noun adverse circumstances
- The minstrel, like the fighters, revels in hard knocks and rough jests.
- Extract from : « The Balladists » by John Geddie
- That is where the ball is, and there are the keen players to be met, and the glory and the hard knocks to be got.
- Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes
- Of course there would be some hard knocks, but he expected that, for he was going to rough it!
- Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
- We went through the same school of hard knocks together—all of us.
- Extract from : « Anchorite » by Randall Garrett
- Soldiers deal in hard knocks, and they must expect to get some back in return.
- Extract from : « Charge! » by George Manville Fenn
- Circumstance has received some hard knocks from men and women of this type.
- Extract from : « The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit » by Ralph Waldo Trine
- You have yet, by dint of hard knocks and buffets, to learn the world.
- Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill
- His late opponent was yet a little dazed by the hard knocks he had received.
- Extract from : « Sixes and Sevens » by O. Henry
- He had had some hard knocks and had seen plenty of rough playing.
- Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- I had some hard knocks, as regards storms and other misadventures in various places.
- Extract from : « My Life » by Josiah Flynt