hard knock
Example Sentences
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“Everything that we learned was hard knock life, you figure it out as you go along, and take cues from those that are actively doing things,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
No hard knock, no battering ram, no shouts of "police".
From BBC • May 27, 2025
Auto sales in China have faltered after years of blistering growth, and global automakers especially have taken a hard knock.
From Reuters • May 26, 2022
“Focus on defense, run the bases hard, knock some people off the plate if we need to, take the plate back as a pitching staff. Put together a professional at-bat.”
From Washington Times • Jul. 10, 2016
I give Agent Magnus’s door a good hard knock.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
