Usually means: Learning through difficult personal experiences.
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  1. the hard way: Merriam-Webster
  2. the hard way: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. the hard way: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. Hard Way, The Hard Way (Clint Black album), The Hard Way (James Hunter album), The Hard Way (Steve Earle album), The Hard Way (The Kinks song), The Hard Way (novel), The Hard Way: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. hard way: Wiktionary

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  1. hard way: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hard way)

noun:  (craps) Alternative form of hardway (“type of bet”) [(craps, chiefly attributive) A bet that is won only if the desired total is rolled as a pair of two of the same value, e.g. 6 from 3 and 3 rather than 4 and 2.]

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