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German
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Noun
harte Nuss f (definite nominative die harte Nuss, genitive harter Nuss, definite genitive der harten Nuss, plural harte Nüsse, definite plural die harten Nüsse)
- (idiomatic) tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack
2018 October 25, Bernhard Pötter, “Zwischenbericht der Kohlekommission: Kohle für die Zukunft”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:Nun steht im November die härteste Nuss an: Das Tauziehen um einen Pfad zum Kohleausstieg. Denn bisher sind weder ein Enddatum für die Kohle noch die Höhe der Staatshilfen klar.- Now the toughest nut to crack is coming up in November: The tug-of-war over a path to the coal phase-out. So far, neither an end date for coal nor the amount of state aid is clear.
2020, Dudenredaktion, Duden - Redewendungen: Wörterbuch der deutschen Idiomatik:Die letzte Frage im Radioquiz war wirklich eine harte Nuss.- The last question in the radio quiz was a really tough nut to crack.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hart, Nuss.
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