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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hard ass" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is tough, strict, or uncompromising, often in a professional or disciplinary context.
Example: "The new manager is a hard ass, but her team respects her for setting high standards."
Alternatives: "a tough cookie" or "a strict disciplinarian".
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A hard ass with cupcakes.
Jaimie: "Emily is being a hard ass.
Peep Nick trying to be a hard ass.
I will not say the judges' name but he was a hard ass.
The student's teacher is a hard ass and makes him cry until he's good, which sounds like pretty lame entertainment.
Probably because I'm a hard ass, and I'm done dealing with his shit unless he's on the brink of death or going to sleep outside.
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He is also a hard-ass.
He's a hard-ass, of course: that's his great strength and his great weakness.
He didn't care if national reporters thought that he lacked a "hard-ass clinical angle".
Holder chose Fitzgerald because "he's a hard-ass," a former senior Justice official told me.
The song played: I've got a hard-ass pair of shoulders.
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