hard lines
hard lines interjection: expressed to someone suffering misfortune.
Interjection
- Expressed to someone suffering misfortune.
- Synonyms:
- bad luck, hard luck, hard cheese, cuhdear, pity, shame, too bad, tough luck, what a pity, what a shame
Noun
hard lines (uncountable)
- Hardship; misfortune.
- “There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.”
Captain Cuttle proffered a glass of rum […]1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
- “There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.”
hard lines meaning in Tamil
hard lines in Tamil
- போகூழ்
Synonyms of hard lines
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Questions about hard lines
- What does hard lines mean?
- Hard lines means expressed to someone suffering misfortune.
- What is hard lines in Tamil?
- Hard lines in Tamil is போகூழ். See Hard lines meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hard lines?
- Hard lines can be an interjection or a noun.
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