Sentence examples similar to crack a hard nut from inspiring English sources

Mr. Morris's version is based on the tale-within-a-tale midway through the original E. T. A. Hoffmann story — a subplot in which an evil Rat Queen disfigures the baby Princess Pirlipat, who will regain her beauty only if a young man finds and cracks a special hard nut with his teeth.

Nostalgia is, ultimately, a hard nut to crack.

It'll be a hard nut to crack.

"Marc was a hard nut to crack," he said.

Wiggins, however, now looks a hard nut to crack.

The American sculptor H. C. Westermann (1922-1981) is a hard nut to crack.

But that also means that the tensions that make missile defense such a hard nut to crack remain in place.

"Critics and scholars (and translators)," Carson goes on, "agree, this scene is a hard nut to crack.

"The food category has been a hard nut to crack because it's a perishable item," said Mark Suster, an investor at GRP Partners.

Apparently in frustration, a police official described the suspect, Ahmed Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamic militant who was arrested on Tuesday, as "a hard nut to crack".

Chris Huhne is one of those featured and, according to Perry and Crombie, is going to be a hard nut to crack.