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hard on

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hard on someone
harming someone's feelings; demanding much from someone. I wish you wouldn't be so hard on me. So I make mistakes. I never said I was perfect.
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You always were hard on me, and you always will be.
“You’re used to dwell with men, Benny,” said Leather-Stocking, mournfully, “ and the ways of the woods would be hard on you, if——”
Then, as she expressed it, she had a breathing time for herself; and she occupied it in making new things for them, and putting double pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully hard on their knees.
 
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