Associations to the word «Hardnose»

Wiktionary

HARDNOSE, noun. A hardnosed person; one who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope