hard as nails
Example Sentences
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It was that he had all the best qualities you’d want in somebody; his heart of gold, and then you couple that with him just being hard as nails and tough, no quit ever.
From Los Angeles Times
But next comes an admission, from this professionally tough politician, described to me by one of her colleagues once as 'hard as nails', that when things get personal, she doesn't like it.
From BBC
"I always well up when I watch it. But Jenny, who remains a close friend, doesn't. Hard as nails, she is!"
From BBC
He said he wanted to move away from a "muscly male lead character", instead making his hero a "hard as nails" teenage girl who was "witty and a bit daft but headstrong like most of us were when we were that age".
From BBC
This time 007 was an ageing hero; older, wiser and self-deprecating but ultimately still as hard as nails.
From BBC
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