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Hard line

noun

A firm and uncompromising stance or position.

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"Hard line" Quotes from Famous Books

... frieze it was purely conventional like the rest, and met in spikey curves round each tree; the painter, however, who was doing the work, was a lover of the fields; and feeling that such grass was a travesty, he added on his own account dainty little tussocks, and softened the hard line into a tufted carpet, the grass growing irregularly, bent ...

— The Roadmender • Michael Fairless

... Betty shut the door. Then she followed Lady St. Craye into the sitting-room, lighted the lamp, drew the curtain across the clear April night, and stood looking enquiry—and not looking it kindly. Her lips were set in a hard line ...

— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit

... possession of this same stock which he now refused to accept as a gift. Virginia thought it over until her head was in a whirl and at last she stamped her foot. The assay would tell, and if he had been trying to cheat her—she drew her lips to a thin, hard line and looked more than ...

— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge

... turn, and her father dropped back into his former tone, his pale lips setting in a straight, hard line. ...

— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

... lips in the hard line that made him look the man of character his ancestor, John Dwight, had been when he legislated in the first Congress. "No, I shall not resign. It would be bad business in two ways: they would know I was hard up, and I should no longer meet in the same way ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton