hit hard
Adjective
Meaning
hit hard (comparative more hit hard, superlative most hit hard)
Alternative form of hard hit
Synonyms
Examples
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
Sometimes it feels like God backs away from you when you hit hard times, but that's not true. (see Psalm 34:18)
The style of this letter is unexceptionable, for Faraday could not write otherwise than as a gentleman; but the letter shows that had he willed it he could have hit hard. We have heard much of Faraday's gentleness and sweetness and tenderness. It is all true, but it is very incomplete.
Once you have decided to hit someone, then hit them hard because the retribution will be the same whether you hit hard or not.