hard case

Do you know that you're riding Midge, and that she's a hard case?

By the Rock of Cashel, it 'ud be a hard case av the priest was to want.

This is a hard case, if you like; you have every reason to be thankful.

But is it not a hard case, Valerie, when you cannot respect your parents?

It was certainly a hard case, and the more she considered it the less she liked it.

It is a hard case, that's a fact, and I don't see that anything can be done about it.

“Hard case to lose our boat and our bread, sir,” said Tom touching his hat.

It is a hard case,” said Lady Engleton, “but I suppose error has to be paid for.

The Trilobites and Eurypterids constitute a hard case for the derivationists.

It is a hard case, indeed, but I will come out at the top of the heap yet.