Meanings
verbgo hard with someone (third-person singular simple present goes hard with someone, present participle going hard with someone, simple past went hard with someone, past participle gone hard with someone)
present singular third person goes hard with someone · participle present going hard with someone · past went hard with someone · participle past gone hard with someone
- idiomaticslangTo lead to someone suffering; to place someone in difficulty or danger.
Laugh not, pretty one, for by my life it shall go hard with you if you tell not the truth.
1836, George Payne Rainsford James, Darnley: or, The field of the cloth of gold, volume 2, page 181
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