If you are hard-nosed, you are unwilling to change. A hard-nosed position would be one that the person would not change, no matter what arguments you give. A person who is hard-nosed is often thought of as stubborn and unyielding.
If you are hard-nosed, you are unwilling to change. A hard-nosed position would be one that the person would not change, no matter what arguments you give. A person who is hard-nosed is often thought of as stubborn and unyielding.
"Hard nosed" is a horse reference, meaning an animal that is stubborn and refuses to turn his nose the way the rider is trying to steer him. A hard-nosed person stubbornly sticks to whatever he's said, even if doing so would be harmful to someone else.
Nothing at all -- it's not an English saying. Perhaps you mean "take a hard-nosed position," which means to take a stubborn position and refuse to yield even if someone ends up getting hurt by your actions.
An idiom is a form of expression in a general group or culture. Something like 'It's raining buckets.' This doesn't mean there are literal buckets falling it just means it's raining hard. You most likely will have to define what each idiom means.
An idiom is a form of expression in a general group or culture. Something like 'It's raining buckets.' This doesn't mean there are literal buckets falling it just means it's raining hard. You most likely will have to define what each idiom means.
That is not an idiom. It means exactly what it says, although it is probably an exaggeration because it's hard to judge all the fishermen who ever lived and say that one was the best.
It's not really an idiom. It means "what are you thinking about."
RFP is not an idiom. It's an abbreviation.
It is not an idiom, it means your nose is itching.
No. It means exactly what it seems to mean - some classes were ranked at the top.
Like a stone in a creek that you would step on to get to the other side, the idiom usually refers to a job or other position that you think of not as the final destination in your career path but as something you use to help you get to your destination/goal.
idiom means expression like a page in a book