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hard nails

hard nails is the plural of hard nail.

Meaning of hard nail

Noun

hard nail (plural hard nails)

  1. (figuratively) A strong person, in character and physique.
    • "He's a hard nail, is Jack, and a dead shot, too, but you can't leave a Grand National winner to die like that - what?"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, nail: for example, a steel nail that is hardened.

Questions about hard nails

What is hard nails the plural of?
Hard nails is the plural of hard nail.

Words near hard nails in the dictionary

  1. hard moneys
  2. hard multum
  3. hard mutation
  4. hard mutations
  5. hard nail
  6. hard nails
  7. hard news
  8. hard nose
  9. hard nosed
  10. hard noses
  11. hard nut to crack

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