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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I guess you're a hard case too. (Cool Hand Luke; writing credit: Donn Pearce) | |
Lyrics | I'm a hard case that's tough to beat (Paradise City; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) You've been a pretty hard case to crack (Life Goes On; performing artist: LeAnn Rimes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Hard Case (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "HARD CASE": A hard case. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hard case | 39 | sony clie hard case | 5 |
pelican hard case | 26 | hard case motorcycle | 4 |
palm hard case | 21 | shotgun hard case | 3 |
pda hard case | 15 | ipaq hard case | 3 |
cd hard case | 13 | palm m500 hard case | 3 |
palm zire 71 hard case | 7 | hard case travel | 2 |
ipaq 1910 hard case | 6 | palm pilot hard case | 2 |
zire 71 hard case | 6 | vanguard hard case | 2 |
hard case luggage | 5 | tungsten t hard case | 2 |
notebook hard case | 5 | palm v hard case | 2 |
m500 hard case | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "HARD CASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | hajthatatlan ember, nehéz hapsi, nehéz eset (he is a tough proposition, picnic, tough going), nehéz (burdensome, complicated, cumbersome, cumbrous, damper, difficult, grave, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, hefty, herculean, inconvenient, it's a bad job!, knotty, laborious, onerous, ponderous, stiff, stodgy, teaser, thorny, to be bunkered, to be hard to please, tough, trying), lehetetlen alak, fiú (boy, bub, bucko, buster, groom, he, lad, son, yob, yobbo). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | gadderagh, dooinney creoi (toughman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardhay asecay zorlu tip, zorlu şey, zor mesele, çetin ceviz (hard core, hard nut to crack, hot potatoes, tartar). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: charades, hardcase. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arcades, chadars, charade, crashed, echards. | |
-2 letters: arcade, arched, arches, arecas, cadres, caesar, cashed, cedars, chadar, charas, chards, chared, chares, chased, chaser, dachas, dasher, echard, eschar, sacred, scared, search, shader, shared, sradha. | |
-3 letters: aahed, ached, aches, acred, acres, ahead, arced, areas, areca, ashed, cades, cadre, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cedar, chads, chard, chare. | |
-4 letters: aahs. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-r-s" | |
+1 letter: archaised, cathedras, headraces, scarehead. | |
+2 letters: cathedrals, charladies, icosahedra, saccharide, scareheads. | |
+3 letters: archdeacons, backhanders, cantharides, cardsharper, chargehands, icosahedral, packthreads, saccharides. | |
+4 letters: archdiocesan, blackhanders, carbohydrase, cardsharpers, chambermaids, disaccharide, handicappers, hardscrabble, saccharified, tetradrachms. | |
+5 letters: carbohydrases, carbohydrates, cardiopathies, disaccharides, dischargeable, handcraftsmen, handicrafters, procathedrals, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies, straightlaced, trisaccharide, trisoctahedra. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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