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ENGLISH
PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | PPAULO |
E-mail: | não-disponível |
Data: | 14/OUT/2012 4:49 AM |
Assunto: | Hard-nosed market... |
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http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/hard-nosed hard-nosed You use hard-nosed to describe someone who is tough and realistic, and who takes decisions on practical grounds rather than emotional ones. INFORMAL adj usu ADJ n (=unsentimental) If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman. hard-nosed businesslike, down-to-earth, hard-headed, hardline, practical, pragmatic, realistic, shrewd, tough, uncompromising, unsentimental. //////////////////////////////////////// In a quick search Google (and online dictionaries ) told me that hard-nose could be: - Focused, unbending, stubborn. - Guided by practical experience and observation rather by theory. - Unsentimentally practical. |