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hard-nose

or 丑补谤诲路苍辞蝉别

[ hahrd-nohz ]

noun

Slang.
  1. a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business:

    We need a hard-nose to run the department.



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Along with being a favored interview method for American detectives, this approach has become iconic in popular culture, the image of the hard-nose detective refusing to back down, eventually breaking a lying and guilty suspect through sheer force of will.

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鈥淗e鈥檚 a hard-nose guy, and our team has taken that persona on, especially on the defensive side of things. So we鈥檙e going to go out there, and we鈥檙e going to compete and leave it all on the floor. I think that鈥檚 how he was as a player and is as a coach now.鈥

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Maryland changed its season when Turgeon committed to using a five-out, small-ball lineup with a hard-nose defensive focus.

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She returned to the country in 2003 to serve as finance minister and backers point to her hard-nose negotiating skills that helped seal a deal to cancel billions of dollars of Nigerian debt with the Paris Club of creditor nations in 2005.

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With Hill under center, the Saints鈥 offense has increasingly taken on the personality of a hard-nose running attack.

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