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.
by lilshawn June 14, 2004
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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."
by tonk June 16, 2004
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What uneducated, dropout, depressed, (usually American) people who most often have a criminal record put as their education on social media because it’s less embarrassing than saying they couldn’t do something as simplistic as passing basic high school requirements.
Employment: Baller at Smokin Dope

Education: Studied thuggin at School of Hard Knocks
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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!"
by Zeromus June 8, 2005
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not half as funny as the prequel "school of hard knockers" starring michael cain as the college jock.
the dean : JOCKSON!
cain: your only supposed to blow the bloody dorrs off,man.
by scott van winkle June 18, 2004
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