Idiom
To learn something the hard way (by experience)
Idiom
The problem with you is that you've been spoiled your whole life. You haven't had gone through the school of hard knocks to teach you what the world is really like!
I didn't go to college, but I went to the school of hard knocks. I learned everything by experience.
Synonym: The university of life
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i graduated from the school of the hard knocks
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Learning a lesson the hardway.
IE: you get your girlfriend pregnant and you did not use protection.
School of hard knocks says: Use protection because now you have another mouth to feed.
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Nickname for Queens Borough, NYC.
"I'm from Queens, kid... the school of hard knocks."
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a song by Jay Z. Also used by Dr Evil in the film 'Goldmember' when him and mini me are in jail.
its a hard knock life for us, its a hard knock life for us, steada treated, we get tricked, steada kisses, we get kicked....
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Breaking down the door with a battering ram. Usually done by law enforcement.
The FBI came to my door hard knocking looking for drugs.
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