Definder - what does the word mean?

What is school of hard knocks?

Obviously where you are classically trained in rock!!!According to our masters, Tenacious D (Rock your Socks):

"That is Bach and it rocks
It's a rock block of Bach
That he learned in the school
Called the school of hard knocks!"

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school of hard knocks - video


School of hard knocks - what is it?

The place where you learn that sometimes you "get beat upside the head just for livin'" Where your grandfather went to school. Can refer to old school.

"Gee mister, where'd you learn to fight like that?" "School of hard knocks, kid."

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What does "school of hard knocks" mean?

Learning a lesson the hardway.

IE: you get your girlfriend pregnant and you did not use protection.

School of hard knocks says: Use protection because now you have another mouth to feed.

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School of hard knocks - what does it mean?

The streets

i graduated from the school of the hard knocks

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School of hard knocks - meaning

1. A Unestablished yet active education system located worldwide with only One class: Street Smarts 101 in wich you learn from your enviroment & the costly mistakes you make

2. Street Education of the obvious or Street Common Sense

"Whats that nerd doing around here? He ain't from the School of hardknocks"

"Girl you know better then to walk through Centarl Park at knight wearing that skimpy Skirt, you better go back to the School of Hardknocks"

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School of hard knocks - definition

1a. Descriptive of the many violent, scary and/or emotionally difficult events that give young people their "smarts" and teach them about the daily struggle to survive in the streets.

1b. Something that an ignorant fuckwit who wouldn't know what to do with a book even if he/she owned one says when he/she finds out that you went further in education than him/her.

1a. "I, on the other hand, am a fully rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and four gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting The Shit Kicked Out Of Me." - Blackadder

1b. "College? Me? Nah. School of hard knocks, mate, school of hard knocks."

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School of hard knocks - slang

The practical experience of life, including hardship and disappointments.

Often used by those who couldn't/didn't go to college for whatever reason and instead went through hardships and disappointments.

He pulled himself up by the bootstraps and made his way through the school of hard knocks.

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School of hard knocks

Your white trashy cousin studied there according to his Facebook page.

"Honey, where did your cousin go to school?"
"Well according to his Facebook page he has Studied at the school of hard knocks"
"I'll put that in his obituary."

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School of hard knocks

Life itself; knowledge (and wisdom) gained by working for it, and not necessarily from a book.

You can learn more common sense from the school of hard knocks, than from most any university.

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School of hard knocks

To learn something (usually a life lesson) the hard way. (Some say the best way to really learn is to learn from your mistakes.)

She was street wise... having learned many a lesson about life at the school of hard knocks.

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