HARD AS NAILS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hard as Nails Stern, hard-hearted, unsympathetic; able to stand hard blows like nails. Religious bigotry, straitlacedness, rigid puritanical pharisaism, make men and women "hard as nails." "I know I'm as hard as nails already; I don't want to get more so." - Edna Lyall: Donovan. chap. xxiii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Modern Usage: HARD AS NAILS

Expressions: HARD AS NAILS

Modern Translation: HARD AS NAILS

Language		Translations for "HARD AS NAILS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i fortë fizikisht. (various references)

Czech		být neoblomný (be as hard as nails, stand firm). (various references)

Greek		σκληροτράχηλος (tough). (various references)

Hungarian		nagyon szívós (as hard as nails, to be as hard as nails), keményszívű (as hard as nails, to be as hard as nails), keménykötésű (as hard as nails, well-set), könyörtelen (cruel, fell, inhuman, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, steely, steely glance, to be as hard as nails, unfeeling, unmerciful), acélos izmú (as hard as nails, to be as hard as nails), acélizmú (as hard as nails). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardhay asay ailsnay

Romanian		în formã (fit, in form, in the pink). (various references)

Swedish		obeveklig (as hard as nails, flatfooted, immovable, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inflexible, ironbound, obdurate, relentless, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting), i utnärkt form (as hard as nails). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: HARD AS NAILS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-h-i-l-n-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: handrails.
	-3 letters: darshans, handrail, harianas, laniards, sardanas.
	-4 letters: aldrins, arshins, ashlars, dahlias, dalasis, darshan, dharnas, hariana, islands, laniard, lashins, nadiral, radials, radians, salinas, sandals, sandhis, sardana, shairds, shairns, sradhas.
	-5 letters: alands, aldrin, arshin, asanas, ashlar, assail, dahlia, dalasi, danish, dashis, dharna, dinars, drails, drains, halids, hansas, harass, island, lahars, lairds, lanais, lianas, liards, lidars.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-h-i-l-n-r-s-s"
	+4 letters: achondroplasias.
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Alternative Orthography: HARD AS NAILS

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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Hard As Nails (2001)
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Specialty Definition: HARD AS NAILS

Expressions using "HARD AS NAILS": as hard as nails ♦ be as hard as nails. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.