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Unyielding, callous, unsympathetic, as in Don't ask her for a contribution—she's hard as nails . This expression has replaced the 14th-century simile hard as flint stone and presumably alludes to the rigidity of nails.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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