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Mr. Tom Posted 5 years ago
Vocabulary

Hard to fault

Hi

Is the red expression natural English?

The layout is hard to fault. (=difficult to find faults with the layout)

As a boss, he was hard to fault; as a man, he was very weird. (=difficult to find faults with him)

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom Is the red expression natural English? It is not wrong at all, but it is unusual in my Eastern US dialect.

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  • Mr.
  • Tom Is the red expression natural English?
  • It is not wrong at all, but it is unusual in my Eastern US dialect.
  • I suspect it is rather literary everywhere.
  • I think it is normally used in a certain form, "hard to fault him/her/them".
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Mr. TomIs the red expression natural English?

It is not wrong at all, but it is unusual in my Eastern US dialect. I suspect it is rather literary everywhere. I think it is normally used in a certain form, "hard to fault him/her/them".

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