school of hard knocks

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

school of hard knocks

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

school of hard knocks

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

school of hard knocks

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

school of hard knocks

An institution where drs go to learn how to do breast implanrs.

"Are you qualified to do breast implants?"

"Certainly, I learned at the School of Hard Knocks."

by REAL AMERICAN June 7, 2005

The school of hard knocks

Idiom

To learn something the hard way (by experience)

Idiom

The problem with you is that you've been spoiled your whole life. You haven't had gone through the school of hard knocks to teach you what the world is really like!

I didn't go to college, but I went to the school of hard knocks. I learned everything by experience.

Synonym: The university of life

by Zami Karzai September 15, 2018

School of Hard Knocks

Nickname for Queens Borough, NYC.

"I'm from Queens, kid... the school of hard knocks."

by KHova January 3, 2006