the hard way

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   by having an unpleasant experience or by making mistakes

   I learned all that the hard way.

In the movies · 14

• Found that out the hard way at a birthday party.The Way Way Back2013
• Do this the hard way or the easy wayFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019
• Oh-ho, okay! Ooh, well, so you wanna do it the hard way, huh?Toy Story1995
• The hard wayFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019
• The hard way.Avatar: The Way of Water2022
• The hard way it is.Sonic the Hedgehog2020
• Give me four the hard way.Air2023
• I learned all that the hard way.Mommy Dead and Dearest2017

Learn it in full scenes

• The Way Way Back2013
  • Trent Rates Duncan a Three
  • Betty Welcomes the New Neighbors
  • Dinner at Trent's Beach House
• Toy Story1995
  • Toy Story Opening Western Play
  • Toys Panic Over Andy's Birthday
  • Buzz Arrives in Andy's Room

From the same entry

• be hard on
• drive a hard bargain
• give a hard time
• hard and fast
• hard as nails
• hard cheese
• hard going
• hard luck
• make hard work of
• no hard feelings
• play hard to get
• too much like hard work

More idioms

• same here
• get this
• lose your temper
• not to mention
• first things first
• look good
• anything like
• slip your mind
• cross your mind
• i wish
• up in the air
• i tell you