the hard word

the hard word
n
a.
a rejection or condemnation
► 'It was the one thing that would bring Christina [Onassis] and her father to-gether again. It was only a matter of time before Christina gave me the hard word.' (Joseph Bolker quoted in Heiress, by Ni-gel Dempster, 1989)
b.
a difficult request or ultimatum, particularly a demand for money or sex
The phrase is normally part of longer ex-pressions such as 'put the hard word on' or 'give someone the hard word'. The ori-gin of the expression is obscure, but it is most prevalent in
Australian use.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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