hard
Related to hard: die hard, Hard boiled eggs
hard
1. slang Containing alcohol. They sell a brand of hard lemonade here that is very popular with younger adults.
2. slang Of or pertaining to distilled liquor (as opposed to beer, wine, cider, etc.). I've got some beers, if you want one. Or would you prefer something harder? I've learned not to drink the hard stuff on a night out. I always regret it the next morning.
3. slang Of drugs, extremely dangerous and addictive. I only smoke weed. I never touch the hard stuff. He was hooked on hard drugs by the time he left high school.
4. slang Tough and unfeeling. Ten years in prison would make any person hard. You've gotta be hard to make it in this town.
5. vulgar slang Of a penis, erect.
6. vulgar slang Of a male, having an erect penis.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
hard
1. mod. fermented, as with cider. (see also hard liquor.) This juice got hard. What shall I do with it?
2. mod. having to do with an addictive drug. (Compare this with soft.) Hard drugs are easier to get than ever before.
3. mod. tough. (Akin to hardhearted; hard as nails.) Only the hard guys get through basic training.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- (as) hard as a rock
- (as) hard as nails
- (as) hard as stone
- (as) hard as the nether millstone
- A good man is hard to find.
- a hard act to follow
- a hard bargain
- a hard case
- a hard egg to crack
- a hard head
- a hard nut (to crack)
- a hard pill to swallow
- a hard row to hoe
- a hard time
- a hard/tough act to follow
- a hard/tough nut
- a hard-luck story
- a little (hard) work never hurt anybody
- a little (hard) work never hurt anyone
- a little (hard) work never killed anybody
- a little (hard) work never killed anyone
- a tough act to follow
- a tough nut
- a tough nut to crack
- at someone's heels
- bad habits die hard
- be (as) hard as nails
- be a hard act to follow
- be hard at it
- be hard done-by
- be hard hit (by something)
- be hard on (one)
- be hard on somebody
- be hard pushed
- be hard put
- be hard put to
- be hard put to (do something)
- be hard up
- be hard up for something
- be hard-pressed
- be/feel hard done by
- between a rock and a hard place
- bigger they are, the harder they fall
- bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
- cold cash
- cold, hard cash
- come down hard
- come down hard on (someone or something)
- come down hard on someone
- come down on
- didn't care too hard
- die hard
- do (something) the hard way
- do something the hard way
- do the hard way
- do the hard yards
- do/learn something the hard way
- drive a hard bargain
- drive a hard bargain, to
- fall on hard times
- feel hard done-by
- find (something) out the hard way
- first hundred years are the hardest
- first step is always the hardest
- get a hard time (from someone)
- get the/a hard sell
- give (one) a bad time
- give (one) a hard time
- give (one) a rough time
- give (one) the hard sell
- give a hard time
- give somebody a rough, hard, bad, etc. time
- go hard or go home
- go hard with
- go hard with (someone)
- Good men are scarce
- hard
- hard act to follow
- hard and fast
- hard as a rock
- hard as nails
- hard as the nether millstone
- hard at
- hard at (something)
- hard at it
- hard bargain
- hard by
- hard case
- hard cases make bad laws
- hard cash
- hard cheddar
- hard cheese
- hard coin
- hard core
- hard done by
- hard done-by
- hard drug
- hard facts
- hard feelings
- hard going
- hard hat
- hard head
- hard hit, be
- hard knocks
- hard line
- hard lines
- hard lines!
- hard liquor
- hard luck
- hard luck/lines
- hard nut to crack
- hard of hearing
- hard off
- hard on
- hard on (one's)/the heels
- hard on the eyes
- hard on the heels of (someone or something)
- hard on the heels of something
- hard on your heels
- hard pass
- hard power
- hard pressed
- hard put
- hard put to (do something)
- hard put to do something
- hard put, be
- hard reboot
- hard sell
- hard shoulder
- hard sledding
- hard time
- hard times
- hard to believe
- hard to come by
- hard to swallow
- hard to take
- hard up
- hard way, the
- hard words break no bones
- hard work is not easy
- hard yards
- hard/hot on somebody's heels
- hard/tough act to follow
- hard/tough sledding
- hard-as-nails
- hard-boiled
- hard-core
- harder than the back of God's head
- hardheaded
- hardliner
- hard-nosed
- hard-on
- hard-pressed
- hard-pressed to (do something)
- have a hard head
- have a hard time
- have a hard time with (someone or something)
- have a hard-on
- have a hard-on for (someone or something)
- have a hard-on for someone
- have a job
- have no hard feelings
- hit (someone or something) hard
- hit hard
- hit somebody/something hard
- hold hard
- hold you hard
- hot on (one's) heels
- it's raining harder than a cow peeing on a flat rock
- it's raining harder than a cow pissing on a flat rock
- learn (something) the hard way
- learn the hard way
- make hard work of (something)
- make hard work of something
- no hard and fast rules
- no hard feelings
- not any hard feelings
- old habits die hard
- old habits, traditions, etc. die hard
- old traditions die hard
- on the heels of
- over easy
- over easy/medium/hard
- over hard
- over medium
- play hard to get
- put in a hard day at work
- put in a hard day's work
- put the hard word on
- put the hard word on (one)
- put the hard word on someone
- put the make on
- put the make on someone
- ridden hard and put away wet
- ridden hard and put up wet
- ride hard and put (something) away wet
- ride hard and put (something) up wet
- rode hard and put away wet
- rode hard and put up wet
- school of hard knocks
- take (something) hard
- take a hard left
- take a hard line
- take a hard right
- take a long, hard look at (something)
- take something hard
- teach an old dog new tricks, one can't/it's hard to
- the bigger they are, the harder they fall
- the bigger they come, the harder they fall
- the bigger they come/are, the harder they fall
- the first hundred years are the hardest
- the first step is always the hardest
- the hard sell
- the hard stuff
- the hard way
- the school of hard knocks
- think long and hard
- too much like hard work
- tough act to follow
- tough nut to crack, a
- tough row to hoe
- tough/hard/long row to hoe, a
- work smarter, not harder