What does "School Of Hard Knocks" mean?

Question

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Answer 1

A life experience which has included many difficulties, as the result of which you have learned to cope better and have acquired the wisdom of experience.

Answer 2

means your education was not specifically in textbooks but in experience. More than likely that person grew up in a rough neighborhood, or bad parents, or anything else that would make an innocent human child turn into a cynic and disbeliever of anything given for free.

School- learning
hard knocks- knocked down or beaten around

basically it is a euphamism that relates to someone being knowledgeable in the way the REAL world works and not through rose colored glasses that makes everything look pretty and beautiful.

Answer 3

Hard knocks are the things that have happened to you during your lifetime. They are the things you have learned from and have gotten experience and wisdom because of the hard things that have come your way.

Answer 4

School of Life

Basically means that you learn through experiences instead of via textbooks and schools

Hope it helps

Answer 5

Life experience

Answer 6

Usually it means to ask someone to intercede on your behalf. To ask that person to pray on your behalf or in addition to your own prayers. For example, if I ask my Grandmother to pray that I get a job promotion, I am praying through my Grandmother. OR If I ask Saint Francis of Assisi to pray for my lost pet and help the animal to come home safely... that would be praying through St. Francis. "praying through" and the concept of "interncession" are intricately intertwined. Intercession of Saints, Angels, etc. is all throughout the bible.

Answer 7

It means you had it rough growin up.