HARD-HITTING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Hard-hitting

... extends down to and is largely made up of that terrible modern production, "the man in the street." It is quite ridiculous to pretend that because an Erasmus or a Casaubon could carry on literary controversies, with amazing fluency and hard-hitting, in Ciceronian Latin, therefore "the bald-headed man at the back of the omnibus" can give up the time necessary to obtaining a control of Latin sufficient for the conduct of his affairs, or for hobnobbing with his ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark