Idiom
Hard sell.
If someone puts a lot of pressure on you to do or buy something, they are hard selling it.
Exact(1)
They found it refreshing that they weren't being given a hard sell, but genuine opinions.
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Within 15 miles of Reagan National Airport, no unmanned aircraft are allow to fly without specific FAA authorization which would have been a hard sell given the high-security of the event and the number of VIPs in attendance.
Cricket would have been a hard sell this summer anyway, given the competing attractions of the World Cup and, in Yorkshire, the Grand Départ of the Tour de France.
Still, he is giving his wayward pals a hard sell on the new Falcons, a case centered around Ryan, an Irish kid from Boston College.
Yet even with the backing of President Bush, the proposed 16.9percentt increase may prove a hard sell, given these economic hard times.
This seems like a hard sell given that SAP has a reputation for being expensive.
With analysts speculating that Apple could roll out everything from a slim laptop sporting lightweight flash memory to a new touchscreen tablet to a second-generation iPhone, it's possible Jobs wants time to give Apple's new products a hard sell.
But giving pharmaceuticals to healthy people is a hard sell.
Given the recent past, this will be a hard sell, but sold it must be.
That may be a hard sell to many Democrats, given the effect he had on the 2000 election as the Green Party's nominee.
Given the evidence presented against Ulbricht, the pitch proved a hard sell to the jury.
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