0 If someone is hard-bitten, their character has been made stronger as a result of difficult experiences in the past: --
However, his clients have become tired of his hard-bitten gold diggers and have started taking their business elsewhere.
Its lyrical quality suggests that beneath the hard-bitten scoffer there lurks a romantic softie, while beneath that again lies a hard-bitten scoffer.
The judges were hard-bitten, knowledge able farmers.
But shipowners are a pretty hard-bitten lot.
This is not an area of hard-bitten old men who refuse to learn new ways and will not be able to adapt themselves to new and modern factory techniques.
It is equally difficult to explain complicated legislative concepts to hard-bitten parliamentary draftsmen.
This is from a hard-bitten journalist who has probably seen everything.
He mixes, or tends to mix, with at least a proportion of the hard-bitten criminals.
