However, he hardened up after he returned to South Africa.
What was he like before he hardened up?
Then they should insist that Jenkins hardens up his promise that Barclays will get control of one of its biggest overheads – bonuses in the investment bank.
Throw into the fridge for an hour or two so that the pie hardens up and is less sloppy.
He will harden up the pack in spades.
Mr Scarlett said he was happy to harden up the language of the dossier at Downing Street's behest.
At the weekend Cameron hardened up his stance, saying he would not even try to form a minority government unless he could be sure other parties (the Lib Dems, presumably) would support legislation for an in/out referendum.
The faulty intelligence from MI6 was compounded by Tony Blair who hardened up the information when he wrote the foreword to the so-called "dodgy dossier" in September 2002.
He believes that scientists coming from an academic setting "need to harden up and pitch their stakes higher".
At least one wildlife expert had some perspective: "It is time to harden up to the reality that the penguin has returned to the anonymity from which he emerged," he said.
