Idiom
go hard with someone
Meaning
To lead to someone suffering; to place someone in difficulty or danger.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Things will go hard with him if he misses the deadline.”
“The boss warned that it would go hard with anyone caught stealing from the company safe.”
“If the evidence proves that he knowingly deceived the investors, it will undoubtedly go hard with him when the judge delivers the final sentence.”
Examples
simple
“Things will go hard with him if he misses the deadline.”
contextual
“The boss warned that it would go hard with anyone caught stealing from the company safe.”
complex
“If the evidence proves that he knowingly deceived the investors, it will undoubtedly go hard with him when the judge delivers the final sentence.”
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