hard nut to crack 的定义
- 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
等同于 can of worms
更多hard nut to crack例句
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.
- My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
- All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.
- We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
- He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.
- However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.
- 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.