| 单词 | to come through the hards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come (also go, etc.) through the hards (also hard) d. Originally and chiefly Scottish. to come (also go, etc.) through the hards (also hard): to experience hardship or difficulty. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Banffshire, Aberdeenshire, Angus, and Fife in 1956. ΚΠ 1820 R. Mudie Glenfergus III. xxxi. 229 Tibbie an' Colin, that hae come sae sair throu' the hards. 1858 G. Roy Generalship vi. 101 The bits o' bairns run a great risk o' coming through the hard. 1904 R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregat. I. 462 Again Arthur Street had passed through the hards. 1921 Ld. Craigmyle Lett. to Isabel 165 Has any one of them gone through the hards for education? Not one of them. I have. 1928 N. Shepherd Quarry Wood xvi. 262 ‘She's come through the hards, yer Aunt Sally,’ Geordie had said to Martha. < as lemmas |
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