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I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.
Holly Valance

Meaning of "hard done by" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD DONE BY

hard done by play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD DONE BY

hard cheese
hard cider
hard coal
hard copy
hard core
hard court
hard currency
hard disk
hard disk drive
hard doer
hard drive
hard drug
hard feeling
hard feelings
hard fern
hard grass
hard hat
hard hitter
hard labour
hard landing

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD DONE BY

bide by
by and by
come by
do by
fast by
full and by
get by
go by
happen by
hard by
lay store by
pass by
put by
stand by
stick by
swing by

Synonyms and antonyms of hard done by in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hard done by» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD DONE BY

Find out the translation of hard done by to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard done by from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard done by» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

硬做
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hecho difícil por
570 millions of speakers

English

hard done by
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुश्किल से किया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

به بشدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трудно сделать,
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

duro feito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড দ্বারা সম্পন্ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

très exploité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sukar dilakukan oleh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hart gemacht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハードによって行われ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 에 의해 수행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard rampung dening
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khó thực hiện bằng cách
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடினமாக செய்யப்பட்டது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हार्ड द्वारे केले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tarafından sert bitti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

duro fatto da
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trudno dokonać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

важко зробити ,
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greu de realizat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αδικημένες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hard gedoen deur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hårt genom
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vanskelig gjøres ved
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard done by

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD DONE BY»

The term «hard done by» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.628 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD DONE BY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hard done by» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hard done by» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard done by

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2 QUOTES WITH «HARD DONE BY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hard done by.
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Sean Quinn
Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that.
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Holly Valance
I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD DONE BY»

Discover the use of hard done by in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard done by and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
idioms feel hard done-by (also feel hard done-to) uk to feel that you have been treated unfairly: I m feeling hard done-by because I ve been looking after the kids all week and Steve s been out every night. • hard at it uk informal putting a lot of ...
‎2008
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Practical Everyday English: A New Method of Learning ...
To feel/To be hard-done by (Unfairly treated or punished, brought up* without luxury) Examples: They fee/ hard-done by because the newspaper article was clearly biased against them. • We were hard-done by as kids.We didn't even have  ...
Steven Collins, 2007
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Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-job ...
You get an instant, supportive community in a big dark scary world of such scope it may well literally be beyond rational human processing. When you are hard done by, you get purpose in a life where otherwise, you'd have to find your own.
Michael Wolraich, 2010
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"idioms feel hard done-by (also feel hard done-to) uk to feel thatyouhave beentreatedunfairly: I'm feeling hard done-by because I've been looking after the kids all week and Steve's been out every night. . hard at it uk informal putting a lot of ...
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
thrrr was a large gate ; There was a gate hard by. hard 'done by ... share of the money but he still says he has been hard done by. harden one's heart to refuse to show sympathy or kindness: It is very difficult to harden your heart when a beggar  ...
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Chambers Idioms
... esp the most loyal or stubborn members of a group etc: He was supported by a hard core of MPs who were opposed to any kind of concession to the reformers. hard done by (inf) unfairly treated: We gave him a fair share of the money but he ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... esp the most loyal or stubborn members of a group etc: He was supported by a hard core of MPs who were opposed to any kind of concession to the reformers. hard done by (inf) unfairly treated: We gave him a fair share of the money but he ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... by the river. hard done by unfairly treated He felt rather hard done by when the decision was announced. hard on something soon after something His loss occurred hard on his retirement. hard on one's heels closely following somebody The ...
Vijaya Kumar, 1998
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... core of the future regime Hard currency: One which does not lose its value compared to other currency * Pounds and dollars are considered as hard currency Hard done by: Badly treated * The poor servant was hard done by his master Hard ...
Shori, A K, 2010
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The Psychology of the Person
I would call it the hard-done-by disposition. A psychiatrist might call it depression. This hard-done-by disposition permeates all her activities. The hard-done-by state was an aggregate and its component parts—grief, disappointment, despair — ...
Neville Symington, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD DONE BY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard done by is used in the context of the following news items.
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Inside the Ku Klux Klan review – armed to the teeth, burning with …
... a bit misleading – fully half the programme was about Mexico – but you were free to turn off halfway through if you felt hard done by. I wasn't. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Panama 1, USA 1 | CONCACAF Gold Cup Match Recap …
Cuba, the US felt hard done by in the 41st minute when Bedoya was felled from behind by Harold Cummings as he sprinted toward goal. «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
3
Love Me Tender gets us all shook up at Sunderland Empire …
Instead we are transported to a nameless mid-west American town where just about everyone feels hard done by, not least because of Mayor ... «ChronicleLive, Jul 15»
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Government projects expected to create 1500 jobs in Ipswich - The …
We have a community filled with both inspirational locals and people who have been hard done by. I enjoy telling their tales and hopefully ... «The Queensland Times, Jul 15»
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PAC to invite Wallace to meet privately over Nama claims
“A lot of people feel very hard done by Nama. There is an awful lot of money at stake. There is a lot of portfolios and assets still to be sold and I ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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Will the 2015 Tour de France produce the 'perfect winner'?
It was the luck of the draw, some will say, but you wouldn't judge Orica too harshly if they felt a little bit hard done by. But any rider who has ... «RoadCyclingUK, Jul 15»
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George Michael Forced To Deny Addiction To Crack Cocaine
Clearly feeling hard done by, Andros sent out an email to promote his new business after the firing, revealing himself to be a petty little whiny ... «Popdust, Jul 15»
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Proposed ports bill under the microscope | Mackay Daily Mercury
We have a community filled with both inspirational locals and people who have been hard done by. I enjoy telling their tales and hopefully ... «Mackay Daily Mercury, Jul 15»
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Calls for Police Minister to come before PCCC | Toowoomba Chronicle
We have a community filled with both inspirational locals and people who have been hard done by. I enjoy telling their tales and hopefully ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Who is Australia's next generation of batsmen? | The Roar
Having averaged 57.20 in the latest Shield season, Wade will probably feel a bit hard done by not to get back into the Australia squad. «The Roar, Jul 15»

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