#hardtimes ???business in the sun! ?? /EsMAn65GeI Out with my family for my brothers graduation, everyone is still on there first drinks and I’m nervous to go up for my fourth cause of the looks id get. Hard times sees more ironic uses, too, to characterize minor challenges-or to highlight how someone is actually having a great time. #DreamingInHeaven #HardTimes #RhodesFamily /MHPahL9iTJ You are the strongest, greatest man I ever knew. Every damn day, I wish I could see you, or pick up the phone and call you. I sentence those who demand civility who have nothing but rights and privilege to hard times….I mean hard times that people of color have had to face in this country: discrimination, racism, unequal treatment everywhere we turn and a demand to be civil in the midst of it all.īeen an especially hard year for me. While hard times frequently refers to economic woes whether individual or economy-wide, the term sees wide use for anything that’s sunk: a political campaign on the rocks … or truth and facts in American society. For punks, hard times are times when you are beaten by the cops, lose your squat, or your band breaks up.ĭating to the late 1800s, hard time is American slang for a “jail sentence,” with hard meaning a “long” punishment for a serious crime.Īnd … to give someone a hard time is to criticize someone … so you can probably give someone serving hard time a hard time … right? The punk news site, The Hard Times, might find Paramore’s colorful video and upbeat tempo a little soft, though. In 2017, rock group Paramore released a popular track “Hard Times,” with its titular trials referring to emotional difficulties: “Hard times, gonna make you wonder why you even try / Hard times, gonna take you down and laugh when you cry.” Before it was a bouncy hit by rockers Paramore, the great American songwriter Stephen Foster had his 1854 songbook staple “Hard Times Come No More,” often shortened to “Hard Times.” That same year, Charles Dickens published Hard Times – For These Times, a summary of the economic conditions of life in England during the Industrial Revolution and the rich for ignoring the plight of the poor.īoth works helped to popularize the phrase hard times, with hard meaning “difficult” and “down on one’s luck.”