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#1 2015-01-20 14:08:04

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
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Hardballed for hardboiled

This one might be a blend of hardboiled, as in tough, and “playing hardball”, as opposed to softball.

I was refering specifically to a translator [’s bills], a professional who mostly deals with other profseeionals, not to a hard-balled contractor who anyway, knows how to collect his money even without bothering with paperwork”.
http://alt.usage.english.narkive.com/wc … e-reminder

In this novel it isn’t just Eric who is lacking depth: there is Raymond, the stereotypical word-bending politician, his drunk and distant brother, the over-zealous reporter, the hard balled detective, and so on.
https://hardlywritten.wordpress.com/201 … ng-season/

It’s hard to say exactly what the next example is referring to:

He was a nice guy, with good technical skills, but then, if there was the need of someone capable of playing hard balls… well it was a different story.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=HDlpBQ … 22&f=false

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