hard knocks
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"Everyone loved her. I grew up with Tina Turner and she was a great woman to me, with a lot of sorrow too due to life's hard knocks but absolutely someone we could admire."
From Reuters ● May 25, 2023
Australian rugby league in the early 1990s was an unforgiving school of hard knocks, tough men and scant sympathy.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023
Sam is a straightforward girl who suffers hard knocks and learns to climb rocks as she undergoes the traumas and revelations of growing up from age 7 to 19.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
Brown agreed, saying, “Through the school of hard knocks, we’re better at managing through it.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
Shasta cried only a very little; he was used to hard knocks.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
