hard nut to crack

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hard nut to crack 的定义

  1. Also, tough nut to crack. A difficult problem; also, an individual who is difficult to deal with. For example, This assignment is a hard nut to crack, or It won't be easy getting her approval; she's a tough nut to crack. This metaphoric expression alludes to hard-shelled nuts like walnuts. [Early 1700s]

hard nut to crack 近义词

hard nut to crack

等同于 can of worms

更多hard nut to crack例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.
  3. My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
  4. All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.
  5. We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
  6. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  7. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  8. He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.
  9. However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.
  10. And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.