hard linenoun [ S ]
uk/ˌhɑːd ˈlaɪn/us/ˌhɑːrd ˈlaɪn/the fact of being very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to give people what they want:
The government wants to take a hard line against the strikers.
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- a leopard can't/doesn't change its spots idiom
- be no hard and fast rules idiom
- burn your boats/bridges idiom
- congenital
- continuity
- fixed
- fixity
- hard line
- immutable
- incorrigible
- incurable
- irreducible
- irremediable
- irreparable
- irretrievable
- irreversible
- ossify
- stuck
- uncompromising
- what's done is done idiom
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