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Ruthless tactics
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hardball
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Hardball , in English, generally refers to baseball (as opposed to its variant softball ), especially when played very competitively. Metaphorically, it refers to uncompromising and ruthless methods or dealings, especially in politics .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB play ▪ Well, we can play hardball , too. ▪ This is playing hardball , but it is hardball of a sort familiar in these dealings. ▪ PITTSBURGHThe Steelers and Pirates found out voters can play hardball , too. ▪ I began ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics; "they play hardball in the Senate" baseball as distinguished from softball [ant: softball ]
Usage examples of hardball.
Merit Service Board and toss a grenade into the civil service grievance system and show you some hardball of my own.
But, apparently, your executive assassin decided to put your stripes on and try a little hardball instead.
Once, when he was eleven or twelve, he had caught a hardball flush in his upper cheek.
Carla and Abel, had given her the present of a summer in Virtu, before her life got hardball, red in tooth and claw, and otherwise preoccupied with things academic.
This was one of many hardball maneuvers Stan had learned while he was at the Justice Department in D.
While not enjoying what was happening, Sloane acknowledged mentally that at plenty of press conferences in the past he had played hardball as an interrogator himself.
Northwest played hardball in salary negotiations with its pilots, and the former Hawaiian Airlines pilots who had hired on last were sacrificed.
It certainly wasn't anything MacDonald really knew, but he supposed, just supposed, that SAINT discovered evidence that Sir Robert had in the past played the ultimate hardball game.
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For smokeable cocaine: Base, Ball, Beat, Bisquits, Bones, Boost, Boulders, Brick, Bump, Cakes, Casper, Chalk, Cookies, Crumbs, Cubes, Fatbags, Freebase, Gravel, Hardball, Hell, Kibbles n' Bits, Kryptonite, Love, Moonrocks, Nuggets, Onion, Pebbles, Piedras, Piece, Ready Rock, Roca, Rock(s), Rock Star, Scotty, Scrabble, Smoke House, Stones, Teeth, Tornado.
We all play hardball now and then because it's in the best interests of our employers - our individual countries, if you like.
The firm had no choice but to come after me, and if Braden Chance was in fact hiding the truth from Arthur and the executive committee, then why not play hardball?
If the ringleaders among the Sterkarms get hurt, well, they chose to play hardball.
You want to play hardball with me, I'll play hardball right back.
They'd be practicing the fine art of distancing and when the Beta-cams rolled their press conferences would be peppered with words likedelegated andassigned andtaking the advice of and they'd be fast to glance at Polling when it came time to field the hardball questions.