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HARD LINES

Traducere în limba română

hard lines substantiv

plural (sl.) nenoroc, ghinion; năpastă; greutăţi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"I'd say they was pretty hard lines for a young fellow," he remarked.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The hunters, on the other hand, had stronger and more diversified faces, with hard lines and the marks of the free play of passions.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn't any gentleman such-like as yourself, squire, to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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