| 单词 | hard man |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard man hard man n. colloquial (chiefly British) a man who is (regarded as) particularly tough, aggressive, and self-assured, esp. (a) (Fox-hunting) a hard-riding huntsman, dismissive of physical danger; (b) a man prone to violence, a thug.In some earlier uses difficult to distinguish from more general use (cf. senses A. 2, A. 16a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > of fox fox-hunter1692 fox-huntsman1827 pink1828 fox-huntress1829 hard man1835 1835 G. P. R. James Gipsy III. viii. 278 ‘Twenty years cannot change [the truth] as they have done you and me, hard man!’.. ‘Thank God, I can ride as fresh as any man after the hounds, and shirk neither fence nor gate.’ 1892 E. P. Elmhirst Fox-hound, Forest & Prairie 323 If any of the hard men of the Pytchley were there to see the open ditches and five-foot fences of Aintree..they will scorn more than ever our pigmy obstacles. 1949 Cue 23 July 20/3 Howard Duff as Six-Gun Sam is a real hard man in saloon, saddle or stagecoach hold-up. 1964 R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle i. iii. 70 His expression of his ego is in his physical prowess. He is the ‘hard man’, who, because of his strength, accepts the challenges of the world. 1975 Guardian 10 May 10/2 What did have me terrified were the wee Glasgow hard men flashing knives. 1991 Sun 13 June 2/2 Tory hard-man Norman Tebbit warned the Chancellor not to surrender to Brussels. 2006 T. Anderson Riding Magic Carpet (2008) iii. 88 I shit myself straight away, any attempts to play the hard man vanishing instantly. < as lemmas |
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