rock hard
Frequency: 6.518.5 per million words
Emphatic way to say something is extremely solid or firm.
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- The toffee was rock hard.
- This old bread has gone rock hard.
- The ground was frozen rock hard, so we couldn't dig.
- After months of training, his abdominal muscles were rock hard.
- I couldn't sleep because the mattress felt rock hard.
- I need to defrost this meat; it's still rock hard.
- Be careful, the clay will become rock hard once it dries.
- Why is this cheese rock hard? I just bought it yesterday.
- He tried to bite the candy, but it was rock hard.
- The soil in the garden becomes rock hard during a drought.