happy hunting ground
The place where, in American Indian belief, a person goes after death; heaven.
The Indians believed that at death they went to the happy hunting ground.
A place or area where you can find a rich variety of what you want, and plenty of it.
The forest is a happy hunting ground for scouts who are interested in plants and flowers.
Shell collectors find the ocean beaches happy hunting grounds.
hard feeling
Angry or bitter feeling; enmity. Usually used in the plural.
Jim asked Andy to shake hands with him, just to show that there were no hard feelings.
Bob and George once quarreled over a girl, and there are still hard feelings between them.
hard going
Fraught with difficulty.
Dave finds his studies of math hard going.
hard line
take a hard line with
A strict and inflexible view of or position on something.
Строгий и непреклонный взгляд или позиция по чему-либо.
Although modern economists were trying to persuade him to open up to the West, Castro has always taken the hard line approach.
Хотя современные экономисты пытались убедить его открыться Западу, Кастро всегда придерживался жесткой линии.
The senator said she would take a hard line against introducing new taxes on the middle class.
Сенатор заявила, что займет жесткую позицию против введения новых налогов для среднего класса.
The President was taking a hard line on the budget
Президент занял жесткую позицию по бюджету
hard of hearing
Partially deaf; not able to hear well.
Some people who are hard of hearing wear hearing aids.
You’ll have to speak a little louder. Mrs Evans is hard of hearing.
Please don’t shout. I’m not hard of hearing.
Listening to loud music too much can make you hard of hearing.
hard sledding
rough sledding
tough sledding
Difficulty in succeeding or making progress.
Jane had hard sledding in her math course because she was poorly prepared.
When Mr. Smith started his new business, he had tough sledding for a while but things got better.
hard-hitting
Working hard to get things done; strong and active; stubbornly eager.
The boys put on a hard-hitting drive to raise money for uniforms for the football team.
He is a hard-hitting and successful football coach.
hard-liner
A politician who takes the hard line.
The hard-liner was left with no other option but to go for the February poll after he failed to restore his parliamentary majority.