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Today it is Jack and Sochil here with you, and we are doing an idioms a to z episode.
Our three idioms for today are a hard nut to crack.
That's a good one.
Uh, a bad apple, and spill the beans.
So, Sochi, those are our three idioms.
Um, let's start with, like, a hard nut to crack.
How would you describe that to somebody who's like, I I know literally what it means.
Like, nuts.
Like, a walnut is hard to open without, like, a nutcracker.
But what does this mean as an idiom?
Well, a hard nut to crack, I would say.
A lot of times, if someone is, like, kind of dodgy and secretive and it's hard to get something out of them, then they're a hard nut to crack.
Right.
Like a confession from them.
Yeah, yeah, that's a great example.
I was thinking, like, I listened to a lot of true crime podcasts, and so, like, in a police interrogation where they're trying to get the suspect to admit their guilt of doing something bad if they don't talk, can we use this idiom to describe that person?
Yes, exactly.
They're a hard nut to crack.