hard-nosed
adjEtymology
hard + nosed; originally referred to hard-tipped bullets.
Definitions
Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory.
Hardheaded, stubborn.
Tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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