| 单词 | hard comes to hard |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard comes (also goes) to hard (b) hard comes (also goes) to hard: the most difficult circumstances arise; the worst comes to the worst. Now Irish English (rare). ΚΠ 1727 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Semple, Welwood & Cameron 120 This implicite Faith, and Way of Working, would have made melancholly Suffering, when Hard came to Hard, of Boots, Thumbikins and Fire-matches. 1863 Cornhill Mag. July 109 There is the army in the background ready to fight the matter out if hard comes to hard. 1897 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 429/2 He did his utmost..to maintain it [sc. the traditional policy]..by the means which his predecessors considered the only effective ones when hard comes to hard. 1928 Irish Breeder 18 A plain, common beast wul iye howl its ain, If hard goes to hard, cud leeve on a stane. < as lemmas |
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