HARD CASE

Traducere în limba română

hard case substantiv (jur.)

1. caz grav (pasibil de o pedeapsă gravă, aspră).

2. recidivist, infractor înveterat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“It was a hard case, upon my word”; and, “I do think you were very much to be pitied,” were the kind responses of listening sympathy.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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