hard as brazil

Adjective

hard as brazil (not comparable)

1. (dated, dialectal, simile) Extremely hard.
   • Why, the wood 's as hard as Brazil! He must have spent weeks and weeks about it, let alone the cleverness of thing. Our carpenters would find it a job to make another sich a one; it ought fetch sum'mut homesomdever.1842 June, Edward Daniell, “The Old Coffer”, in The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic, volume IX, London: Dobbs & Co, →OCLC, page 431
   • Mr. R. Davies writes from Warrington: […] any hard wood described as being as 'hard as Bràzil'; and so on, though these old provincialisms are fast dying out before the schools of to-day.1894 October 6, R. Davies, quotee, “Literary Gossip”, in The Athenæum, number 3493, page 459, column 1