go hard or go home
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go hard or go home (third-person singular simple present goes hard or goes home, present participle going hard or going home, simple past went hard or went home, past participle gone hard or gone home)
- (often imperative, usually sports) To face a challenge by making a bold, superior effort, lest one give up and forgo the opportunity.
- 2009 September 10, Larry Dorman, “Golf: Players Competing With a Sense of Urgency”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 November 2015:
- "Probably top five I would have to do, I’m guessing, to get into the Tour Championship. So it’s either that or a couple weeks off. Go hard or go home."
- 2013 August 19, Catriona Menzies-Pike, “Does being a fitness fanatic make you a good politician?”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 17 November 2015:
- He strikes me as more of a go hard or go home athlete, an impression reinforced by reports of aggressive and competitive behaviour.
- 2014 October 3, Jordan Heath-Rawlings, “Unlikely Predictions: Eastern Conference”, in sportsnet.ca, Canada, retrieved 17 November 2015:
- Those kind of predictions are for the weak. We believe in going hard or going home. So these are real predictions—not probabilities.
- 2015 January, Edward Jones, “Fundraising efforts had us bouncing off the wall”, in The University Paper: Newcastle Edition, UK, retrieved 17 November 2015, page 39:
- Members of the Newcastle University trampolining team went hard or went home when they took part in a 24-hour sponsored bounceathon.