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单词 harder than iron
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harder than iron
P2. In (chiefly hyperbolical) similative comparisons, as hard as iron, harder than iron, strong as iron, etc.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 294 Gif ge þonne me forseoð and mine gesetnyssa awurpað, ic eac swyðe hrædlice on eow hit gewrece; ic do þæt seo heofen bið swa heard eow swa isen, and seo eorðe þærtogeanes swylce heo æren sy.
a1500 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Caius) l. 525 in Anglia (1911) 34 525 (MED) Harder than iren is that hert That hath no pite of thy peyn.
?1526 G. Hervet tr. Erasmus De Immensa Dei Misericordia sig. G.ivv Hart harder than horne, harder than yron.
1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint i. 18 In resisting Gods spirite, more hard than yron.
1601 Hels Torments sig. Dvi Hee had a hundred mouthes and as many tongues, with a voice as strong as yron.
1674 R. Hooke Diary 24 Feb. (1935) 88 Gorge told of the cabbidge tree its prodigious height, that its out side is exceeding hard as iron its middle all pith.
1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. I. 443 A piece of Rhinoceros Skin, hard as Iron, and half an Inch thick.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxi. 187 His heart was shod with a metal much harder than iron, which..nothing but hell-fire would be able to melt.
1828 Foreign Q. Rev. 2 356 He..squeezes her hand with fingers as cold as iron.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xvi. 303 He looks as hard as iron, and tough as whipcord.
1918 Boys' Life Aug. 6/1 He looked healthy enough and as if he might be as strong as iron, as some bony men are.
1963 Washington Post 17 Mar. b10/1 Have you ever thought that your body could be..Faster than a bullet? Sharper than a knife? Harder than iron?
2013 News (Portsmouth) (Nexis) 19 Feb. What we did have were homemade treats, such as..ship's chocolate which was hard as iron and bitter as sloes.
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