go hard with someone

English

Verb

go 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)

1. To lead to someone suffering; to place someone in difficulty or danger.
   • 1836, George Payne Rainsford James, Darnley: or, The field of the cloth of gold, volume 2, page 181:

     Laugh not, pretty one, for by my life it shall go hard with you if you tell not the truth.