hard as nails
Example Sentences
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Although Chicago describes herself as “a pussycat,” she’s actually hard as nails, and although her shut-up-it’s-my-piece-we-do-as-I-say attitude was necessary to drive the project to completion, several volunteers left, vowing never to work with her again.
From Washington Post
He said he wanted to move away from a "muscly male lead character", instead making his hero a "hard as nails" teenage girl who was "witty and a bit daft but headstrong like most of us were when we were that age".
From BBC
"He's as a hard as nails mentally," he said.
From BBC
“On these days, I need to close all the windows and shut the outside shutters up tight. Luckily, the bottle palm has always coped with the onslaught. Hard as nails, is Neil – but for how long? I feel a bit of TLC tree surgery would be good.”
From The Guardian
NOTES: Senators D Borowiecki has picked up the nickname “Nailgun” - a spin on being “hard as nails” - from teammate Brady Tkachuk.
From Washington Times
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