play hardball

play hardball informalto be very determined to get what you want, especially in business or politics〔尤指在商界或政界中〕态度果决，采取强硬手段

• guzzling
• be to one’s advantage
• scraping
• take into consideration
• stripers
• one-eighties
• impendences
• press-studs
• imbedding
• dunsinanes
• kamagraphic
• paratope
• make （both） ends meet
• drive back
• Brunelleschi, Filippo
• endocentrics
• restively
• shot bit
• draw a blank
• quar
• bag fox
• kinosternidaes
• smash sth ↔ in
• excludability
• in full retreat
• Alpine bearberry
• endocarditic
• weatherly
• flap house
• lubricator
• pealing
• shift factor
• Dialling code
• combinatorics
• trendiness
• bovid
• feebly
• magnetoelectric
• within an ace of (doing) sth
• fissiparousness
• radiolarian
• nesses
• Eurotrashes
• fall over board
• profile
• wriggle-work
• absurdists
• exognathite
• etceteras
• a hornets' nest
• dulcitones
• enunciative
• Antsirane
• sever
• olfactory anesthesia
• wobbliness
• bellyful
• Chanidae
• viscosity curve
• career woman
• glissaders
• viverrines
• binge drinks
• self-congratulatory
• Berw.
• Thare
• eastenders
• woalds
• screener
• ditrochee
• give the big eye to
• standard mineral
• reds
• hog heaven
• angle gauge
• electrolytic process
• hatters
• wild lily of the valley
• impeachers
• end-runs
• bottle-glasses
• vascular retinopathy
• psychic income
• Irish Pound
• make an attack on
• isozyme
• live out of a suitcase
• Merimée, Prosper
• fared
• preliminary
• deacidifications
• transferrins
• rering locked in
• flashily
• feel your gorge rise
• vide post
• mercenarily
• Stretch out!
• platan
• Bambaras