hard as brazil
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Meaning · English
Extremely hard.
Register: dated
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
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.
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “hard as brazil” mean?
Extremely hard.
Is “hard as brazil” formal or informal?
hard as brazil is generally dated.