hard line

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noun. rigorous or stern control

1958, originally in reference to Soviet communist policies, from hard + line (n.) in the political sense. Related: Hard-liner (1963).

There is, of course, no hard line of separation for these two streams.

Sam's jaw snapped together, and his mouth became a hard line.

His lips were thin and pallid, making a hard line of his mouth.

But the girl made no reply, and her beautiful mouth took on a hard line.

He was pale, and his lips were drawn in a hard line, as if the frost had stiffened them.

He had divided with a hard line his life at school and his life at home.

Her face was pinched, her mouth set in a straight, hard line.

He was rather pale now, and there was a hard line round his mouth.

“Melons,” the woman repeated, and the hard line of her mouth relaxed.

Only from them, she could reconstruct every hard line of the hidden face.