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This may look like an SoP, but let's take apart the three words that compose this phrase. "long" is different from the specific definition of a physical length (meters) in that it refers to a length of time (seconds) and "hard" is different from the idea of being physically able to resist force in that it refers to the (perhaps) grammatically incorrect definition of "difficult". WT:CFI#Idiomaticity somewhat addresses this ambiguity in expressing that "Compounds are generally idiomatic, even when the meaning can be clearly expressed in terms of the parts. The reason is that the parts often have several possible senses, but the compound is often restricted to only some combinations of them." TeleComNasSprVen02:06, 4 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Correct, though that criterion is consistently rejected by the community. And here's why, long and hard is also attestable to mean "long in length" and "hard, dense, solid" (etc.) on Google Books. The problem with such an entry is if we allow one definitions that is sum of parts even by WT:CFI standards, how can you exclude other sum of parts definitions that are also attestable? Mglovesfun (talk) 12:15, 4 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Delete. As long as meaning is readily apparent, we don't include terms just because there are multiple senses for component words. There would have to be ambiguity somewhere. DAVilla07:45, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
The CFI he quoted says "often", not in every case, and from that point actually goes into examples, explaining why "bank parking lot" isn't idiomatic even though "bank" has several meanings. DAVilla15:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
