hard as brazil

Definitions

Extremely hard.

archaic, dialectal, not-comparable

Examples

“Why, the wood 's as hard as Brazil! He must have⟳ spent weeks and weeks about it, let⟳ alone the cleverness of thing. Our carpenters would find⟳ it a job to make⟳ another sich a one; it ought fetch⟳ sum'mut homesomdever.”

“Mr. R. Davies writes from Warrington: […] any hard wood described as being as 'hard as Bràzil'; and so on, though these old provincialisms are fast dying out before the schools of to-day.”

“It was but last⟳ Night that, the Supper not being to madam's liking, she found the Mutton as sour as a wig, and the Potatoes as hard as Brazil; and she told me afterwards that she should never endure the Cook-maid, though the Wench had been as fess as Cox's pig to enter⟳ her service.”

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