ball-breaker

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Noun	1.	ball-breaker - a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence ball-buster adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	2.	ball-breaker - a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" ball-buster chore, job, task - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"

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Judging from the many character references she has accrued over the past few days, Brand is a good and likeable human being who has mellowed since her days as a ball-breaker. Given her comments were made on a satirical show, they couldn't really be construed as incitement to violence, and she later offered a whole-hearted apology - in contrast to the self-serving one recently proffered by Danny Baker.

Dani Garavelli: Joke's on us if we wring our hands about Jo Brand

Denis O'Brien, who is described as a "ball-breaker whom you thank for breaking your balls", has been lauded by influential figures leading the reconstruction effort in the country for his hands on, business-led, social impact investment.

Irish business tycoon, 60, goes from office 'ball-breaker' to humanitarian as he helps reconstruct Haiti; Denis O'Brien says he realised helping people is the 'noblest cause' for an entrepreneur and he is leading project to repair the devastating impact of the earthquakes

As a result, some women adopted the 'ball-breaker' syndrome, or shied away from leadership.

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Salma may be a doting mum but she is also one of the most outspoken stars in Hollywood - a woman even tough film magnate Harvey Weinstein calls "a ball-breaker".

It's a terrible lie that women's lives fall off a cliff when they hit 50 ..my best is yet to come; MYTH-BUSTER SALMA DEFIES THE CRITICS AGAIN MYTH-BUSTER SALMA DEFIES THE CRITICS AGAIN

"I was displayed in the media as everything from a ball-breaker to a bimbo and all because I was a woman and a young woman at that."

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"The problem with feminism is not that men are left out but that women will never meet men on an equal footing while they worry about looking like a ball-breaker" Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig.

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She's got some of the best lines in the film, in any film really, and as the Prime Minister's PR woman, she's brutal - a real ball-breaker," he says with a grin.

'I'm just a sucker for romance' Drama, action, sci-fi - he's tried it all. But there's one genre Hollywood heart-throb and sassy Scot Ewan McGregor simply can't resist, as Susan Griffin discovers

To an eight-year-old lad, The Nutcracker was a ball-breaker, it was anti-Christmas, too girlie.

From Spandau to ballet

Being the complete ball-breaker that she is, Becky wears him down until he concedes and reluctantly takes the job.

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However, Alex admits she's bewildered as to why she's constantly at the top of casting agents' lists when they're looking for someone to play a no-nonsense ball-breaker.

High hopes for Ian's new family drama... COVENTRY director Ian Barnes was nominated for a Bafta this year for his work on Casualty and is now involved in new family drama Hope Springs as TV writer MARION McMULLEN finds out...: The cast bonded with a boozy night in the pub

But '90s Vera too often comes off as a shrill ball-breaker.

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