hardball
Speech parts
1. hardball - Noun
2. hardball - Adjective
3. hardball - Verb
Meaning
baseball as distinguished from softball
a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
When I play ball, I play hardball.
Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
they play hardball in the Senate
Agnos arrived at that figure by looking at the rates extracted from developments and insisting that City Hall should play hardball with future building opportunities.