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hard-doer; hard doer
noun
a person who struggles valiantly against difficulties AUSTRALIA, 1910
Literally, a person who “does it hard”. A term of approbation.- He had to pierce the veil that shielded the action in one hundred aboriginal minds, then quickly assemble the fact by his aboriginal knowledge, aided by a wide local geography and knowledge of hard-doer outside blacks and of their country. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 195, 1947
- “Hard doer, ain’t he?” grumbled the council staff[.] — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 69, 1959
- Among his mates was a slow-speaking hard-doer named Jack Stevens and his amusingly drawled utterances caused many a laugh at Renballa pub. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 40, 1960
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 252, 1969
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