"die hard" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dies hard",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dying hard",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "died hard",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "died hard",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "die hard (third-person singular simple present dies hard, present participle dying hard, simple past and past participle died hard)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "die-hard"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "diehard"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "old habits die hard"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die only after a desperate struggle for life. (of a living being)"
      ],
      "id": "en-die_hard-en-verb-lgDnddqN",
      "links": [
        [
          "desperate",
          "desperate"
        ],
        [
          "struggle",
          "struggle"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 99",
          "text": "Already, however, in this earliest phase, new types cease to be invented; technical skill lingers on and dies hard, but inspiration has gone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715",
          "text": "Another incentive to Glaswegians to make full use of their new facilities is that road-rail competition has died hard in this area and the prevailing fare levels, even though rail rates were recently increased, are somewhat low by standards elsewhere in Britain—[...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be slow in changing or disappearing. (of a custom, idea etc)"
      ],
      "id": "en-die_hard-en-verb-duM8E3G6",
      "links": [
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "changing",
          "change"
        ],
        [
          "disappear",
          "disappear"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be slow in changing",
          "word": "avoir la vie dure"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be slow in changing",
          "word": "avoir la peau dure"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "be slow in changing",
          "word": "nicht tot zu kriegen sein"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "be slow in changing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "vera lífseigur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be slow in changing",
          "word": "być opornym na zmiany"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "die hard"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "die-hard"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "diehard"
    },
    {
      "word": "old habits die hard"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dies hard",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dying hard",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "died hard",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "died hard",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "die hard (third-person singular simple present dies hard, present participle dying hard, simple past and past participle died hard)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To die only after a desperate struggle for life. (of a living being)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "desperate",
          "desperate"
        ],
        [
          "struggle",
          "struggle"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 99",
          "text": "Already, however, in this earliest phase, new types cease to be invented; technical skill lingers on and dies hard, but inspiration has gone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715",
          "text": "Another incentive to Glaswegians to make full use of their new facilities is that road-rail competition has died hard in this area and the prevailing fare levels, even though rail rates were recently increased, are somewhat low by standards elsewhere in Britain—[...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be slow in changing or disappearing. (of a custom, idea etc)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "changing",
          "change"
        ],
        [
          "disappear",
          "disappear"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be slow in changing",
      "word": "avoir la vie dure"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be slow in changing",
      "word": "avoir la peau dure"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be slow in changing",
      "word": "nicht tot zu kriegen sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "be slow in changing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vera lífseigur"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be slow in changing",
      "word": "być opornym na zmiany"
    }
  ],
  "word": "die hard"
}