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| take a long, hard look (to consider a problem or possibility very carefully and without hurrying • We need to take a long hard look at all the options. OALD. to examine something very carefully in order to improve it in the future We need to take a long, hard look at the way we control gun ownership. Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Alexander Demidov) | |||