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hard case

1

noun

  1. a rough, hard-bitten person.


hard-case

2

[ hahrd-keys ]

adjective

  1. rough and hard-bitten:

    hard-case juvenile delinquents.

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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hard case1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Origin of hard case2

First recorded in 1915–20
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“This is not a hard case, it does not require the amount of delay that we’ve had. The case is pretty simple… a guy stole some documents, he hid them, when the government came and looked for them, he lied and hid them,” he continued.

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The chief judge of the 5th Circuit, Priscilla Richman, wrote the majority opinion and basically just quoted big chunks of the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision to show that this is not a hard case.

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“Given the nature of what happened here, the use of a search function to look at tweets, I think that’s a hard case to make,” Quinn said.

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The heist wasn’t a hard case to solve.

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“This is a hard case for me,” Lamberth said.

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