Idiom
bone hard
Meaning
As hard as a bone, rock hard.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The ground is bone hard after the long winter.”
“The soil in the garden is bone hard, so we need to water it before we can plant anything.”
“After weeks of intense heat without rain, the clay earth became bone hard, making it nearly impossible for the farmers to plow their fields.”
Examples
simple
“The ground is bone hard after the long winter.”
contextual
“The soil in the garden is bone hard, so we need to water it before we can plant anything.”
complex
“After weeks of intense heat without rain, the clay earth became bone hard, making it nearly impossible for the farmers to plow their fields.”
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