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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Life is hard prov. [XEROX PARC] This phrase has two possible interpretations: (1) "While your suggestion may have some merit, I will behave as though I hadn't heard it." (2) "While your suggestion has obvious merit, equally obvious circumstances prevent it from being seriously considered." The charm of the phrase lies precisely in this subtle but important ambiguity. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Life is hard, no one makes it out alive. (references; author: unknown) Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Disraeli | Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
life is hard | 28 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-i-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: airfields. | |
-2 letters: airfield, dealfish, flashier, salified. | |
-3 letters: airshed, dailies, dairies, dashier, deafish, deliria, derails, dialers, diaries, dishier, fairies, fairish, fardels, farside, fishier, flashed, flasher, hailers, halides, hardies, heralds, hirsled, liaised, redfish, redials, sedilia, shadier, shalier. | |
-4 letters: afield, afresh, aiders, aisled, alders, ariels, ariled, ashier, ashler, dasher, deairs, deasil, derail, dialer, drails, elfish, faders, failed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 49 46 45 49 53 48 41 52 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01001001 01000110 01000101 00100000 01001001 01010011 00100000 01001000 01000001 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L I F E   I S   H A R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0049 0046 0045 0049 0053 0048 0041 0052 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4643403924353242355238 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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