hardball English

Meaning hardball meaning

What does hardball mean?

hardball

— noun a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics they play hardball in the Senate

— noun baseball as distinguished from softball

Synonyms hardball synonyms

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Examples hardball examples

How do I use hardball in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

We're gonna blow this Cannonball thing wide open. and then we're gonna hit congress for a real budget. that will allow us to play some real hardball.

I can play hardball with Tyler any time.

You want to play hardball, Briggs, we can play hardball, too.

It's a hardball world, son.

And, if you don't stop jerking' around, we're gonna have to play a little hardball.

Oh, hardball?

The gloves are off, I'm playing hardball.

I know. Playing hardball was never your game.

Mr. Lewis plays hardball.

We'll make a deal, and I'll play hardball.

He's playing hardball now. but it won't take him long to crack.

You' re playing big league hardball.

These guys play hardball.

We're gonna blow this Cannonball thing wide open and then we're gonna hit Congress for a real budget that will allow us to play some real hardball.

You can either play hardball here or in the courtroom.

Hardball? -Hmm? Yeah.

Someone's starting to play hardball.

Of course. Because you haven't played hardball, like we did in Tennessee.

Those guys play hardball, Billy.

Some armchair shortstop trying to hardball us, eh?

Let's play some hardball.

Political hardball is what you'd call it.

Playing a little hardball, huh, Donny boy?

Calm down, David. Mr. Lewis plays hardball.

Playing hardball was never your game.

If one wants to, it's possible to play hardball and bring him back as a cyborg.

Maybe in hardball, with all the signals, but I'm just lobbing it in.

You're playing big league hardball here.

Look, Al, I'm not playing hardball here, okay?

You wanna play hardball?

Wanna play hardball, huh?

If you wanna play hardball, I got my friend George and he can play pretty hard.

Well, this is the Afghanis playing hardball.

You learned to play hardball pretty fast, didn't you, Colonel?

News and current affairs

That's hardball politics, not a declaration of war.

The EU pursues long-term geo-economics, whereas the Kremlin plays short-term hardball geopolitics.

The phased exit encouraged Pakistani generals to play hardball.