A hard case

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an abandoned or incorrigible person.

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case hard hard case Law			This Makawao is evidently one of them, and a hard case as well, if there's anything in Johnny's gammon about twenty pounds reward for him. Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context But as I know that it is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards and commissary, to be so good as to release you and let you go in peace, as there will be no lack of others to serve the king under more favourable circumstances; for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context This was a hard case for Cotton Mather, who saw no other way to rescue his poor child Samuel from the disease. Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context			a couple of A cut in rates A dark horse A dead dog A deep line of operations à deux A dog in the manger A drawing of tea A far cry A feather in the cap a few A fighting chance A flat A flea in the ear A forlorn hope a fortiori A friend at court à gogo a good deal A good landfall A good leg A grain of allowance a great deal A great gross A greegree man A hard case A horizon a hundred times A into G a Kempis à Kempis A kind of à la a la carte à la carte a la Florentine à la king a la mode à la mode A labor of love A level A list a little a lot A man of mark A marked man a mensa et thoro a million times A month mind A murrain on you A note shaver			a gut feeling a gut reaction a gut-bucket A Guy Called Cyco A Guy Called Gerald a hair out of place a hair shirt a hair's breadth a half-wit a halfway house a hand in a hand with a hand-me-down A HANDD a handful a handle on a hang a hang a hang a hang-up a hanger-on a happy accident a happy hunting ground a happy medium a hard act to follow a hard act to follow a hard act to follow a hard act to follow a hard act to follow a hard act to follow A hard case A Hard Day's Night a hard nut a hard nut a hard nut a hard nut a hard nut a hard nut to crack a hard nut to crack a hard nut to crack a hard nut to crack a hard nut to crack a hard row to hoe a hard row to hoe a hard row to hoe a hard row to hoe a hard time a hard-on A Hardware Programming Language A Hardware Programming Language A Harvest Biotech Foundation International a has-been a hatchet job a hatchet man a head of steam a head start A Healthier Wisconsin A Heart of Gold a heart of stone a heart-to-heart a heartbeat away from

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