10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD DOER»
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
doer noun Austral and NZAn eccentric, a character; esp. in phr. hard doer, a hard
case. a.1885–. S. H. COURTIER Laurie could have been joking. He was that kind
of doer, you know (1959). [Prob. from the notion of being an active person.] ...
John Ayto, John Simpson,
2010
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
2. Ship's biscuit: nautical: late C.19—20. (COD, 1934 Sup.) See chuck, n., 7, and
cf. hard tack. hard-cut. Dropped cigar-ends: low (7 c.): ca. 1890-1920. Cf. hard-up
, n., 1. hard doer. A wag; an irrepressible, devil-may-care, dryly amusing person;
...
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The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words and Phrases
Also stiff cheese. hard doer Someone who does it hard. harder to pick than a
broken nose A contest that is very difficult to predict. hard graft Hard work or hard
yakka. Hardly Normal A perversion of the department store Harvey Norman.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... value. hard disk 7noun Computing a rigid non-removable magnetic disk with a
large data storage capacity. hard doer 7noun see DOER. hard drive 7noun a disk
drive used to read from and write to a hard disk. hard-earned 7adjective having ...
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The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
The ability to persevere and to battle on against all adversities is a much-admired
Australian characteristic reflected in terms like A HARD CASE, a HARD DOER
and HARDNOSE for those who can both deal it out and take it. To be HARD UP,
...
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An Australian Dictionary for North Americans
To hesitate, to wait. happy as Larry exp. Very happy. hard case 77. [hahd-case] 1.
A difficult person to deal with. 2. A very humorous person. hard doer 77. [hahd
doo-uh] A humorous person. hard slog n. A difficult task. hard yakka n. Hard work.
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The Glass Canoe: Text Classics
Shorty had always been a bit of a hard doer, and I didn't know whether to believe
him. He looked poor on it, anyway. 'I started to feel tired all the time, and got sores
that wouldn't heal. Next time I was in town I go along to this quack and he says ...
... NEG-talk-NEG-NOM be-IMM the one who was beaten; I am not a talker, pe'tka-'
uni-chi” may-puga; “numuy-ga-'ura kach, ka-'uni-kya-paa-'wa-ni, hard-do-NOM
say-REM 1p-TOP-be NEG NEG-do-PL-IRR-NEG-EUT” (only) a hard doer” he ...
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Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology
He is, as a rule, a 'hard-doer'; and even his best friends must admit that he is
often a hard, and fairly original, swearer. Nothing is safe from him when looking
for a butt; very little is sacred, I fear, and his humour takes a queer bent
sometimes .
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Glaxo: A History to 1962
His favourite obiter dictum was 'Always sack the best men: by Jesu it makes the
other bastards work'; in local parlance, he was a 'hard doer'. By the late 1930s,
the Nathans were anxious to limit Walsh's power, and they sent some younger ...
R. P. T. Davenport-Hines, Judy Slinn,
1992
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The sea always drew 'Cossie' back
One of Cossie's friends, Russell Dixon, described his mate of "bloody years" as a real hard doer and a great father to his two children, a son ... «Stuff.co.nz, Sep 12»