hard yards

do the hard yards

To do particularly hard work or put forth a large amount of effort (toward some task), especially in sports. You're never going to have a successful business if you aren't willing to do the hard yards yourself. Our team did the hard yards all game long, and we managed to pull out a victory in the end because of it.

hard yards

Particularly hard work or a large amount of effort (toward some task), especially in sports. Often used with the verbs "do," "make," or "put in." You're never going to have a successful business if you aren't willing to put in the hard yards yourself. Our team did the hard yards all game long, and we managed to pull out a victory in the end because of it.

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释义	hard yards do the hard yards To do particularly hard work or put forth a large amount of effort (toward some task), especially in sports. You're never going to have a successful business if you aren't willing to do the hard yards yourself. Our team did the hard yards all game long, and we managed to pull out a victory in the end because of it. See also: hard, yard hard yards Particularly hard work or a large amount of effort (toward some task), especially in sports. Often used with the verbs "do," "make," or "put in." You're never going to have a successful business if you aren't willing to put in the hard yards yourself. Our team did the hard yards all game long, and we managed to pull out a victory in the end because of it. See also: hard, yard Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: break a sweat go forth from this/that day forth break (one's) balls break balls break balls to do something break one’s balls set forth bend (one's) efforts bend your mind/efforts to something References in periodicals archive If the openers had stayed and done the finishing after the hard yards. Why not stay till the end and get the runs under your belt (from the openers)? IPL 2019: Chennai Super Kings in the final because of bowlers, says MS Dhoni Everton didn't put in the hard yards or the dirty work required to grind out a result. We seem to think we are Madrid and forget to do the hard work "Now the hard yards start, which is season by season, delivering organic growth. Why the 'hard yards' have started at Wasps to attract crowds to Ricoh Arena; The near-capacity Ricoh Arena crowd for Bath game was Wasps' second-biggest at the venue Injury to Billy Vunipola and Nathan Hughes has created a vacancy for a destructive ball-carrier to eat up the hard yards in Rome. LAWES HAVING A BALL McCormack still has a little way to go before he is as physically fit as Bruce would like, but he has been putting in the hard yards in the last two weeks. Can Ross rescue club career after horror start? KILMARNOCK'S former Boro winger Jordan Jones is hoping the hard yards reap more rewards. Doing the hard yards is paying off for former Boro man I've been putting the hard yards back in and it's paying off for me." ROCKET SCIENCE; Ron's reluctant record bid snooker And the 23-year-old vowed to put in the hard yards if selected for Pakistan. Amir picked for NZ tour The Red Rose were bullied by France up front in Paris two weeks ago and were also below-par against their RBS Six Nations rivals seven days earlier, criticised for attempting too many passes out of the tackle instead of making hard yards. Wood: England will keep it simple United need to get more out of their existing players -- and that probably means hard yards on the training ground, where existing methods didn't seem to be working. Steve McClaren set a challenge: Get an extra ten per cent out of the Newcastle squad; Newcastle head coach Steve McClaren has been told that he needs to extract more from that squad than they are currently showing HUNTER'S VERDICT Sunderland put in the hard yards to guarantee safety at Arsenal in midweek, so the pressure is off at Stamford Bridge. BIG MATCH PREVIEW: Chelsea v Sunderland But we are very lucky at Warwickshire that we have some great players and even luckier that we have a group of players who are prepared to put in the hard yards." Attack is built on hard work Clarke said his incumbent pacers had put in the hard yards at Port Elizabeth, and reiterated his preference for a seam-bowling all-rounder in the team. Oz selectors may call in reserve bowlers for Cape Town Test Well, sonny, for you a place on the bench is on the cards - you've got to do the hard yards before you earn the right to call me Pards." No pardon for purveyors of poor nicknames; PICK OF THE DAY
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