Phrase thesaurus
Tough Phrases
178 phrases and expressions related to "tough".
Phrases
- A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
- A big ask
- A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- A man's man
- Adult entertainment (euphemism for sexual or violent entertainment)
- As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
- As hard as a rock
- As hard as iron
- As hard as nails
- As strong as an ox
- As tough as old boots
- As tough as they come
- As tough as tough
- Be hard put to
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Bit of rough
- Blow hard
- Boot camp
- Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
- Built Ford tough (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
- Come down hard on
- Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
- Cut up rough
- Diamond in the rough
- Die hard
- Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
- Do it the hard way
- Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
- Dogged determination
- Drive a hard bargain
- Fall on hard times
- Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
- For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
- Go hard
- Go hard or go home
- Going strong
- Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
- Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
- Hang tough
- Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
- Hard act to follow
- Hard and fast
- Hard aport
- Hard astarboard
- Hard at it
- Hard case
- Hard cases make bad law
- Hard cash
- Hard cheddar
- Hard cheese
- Hard copy
- Hard done by
- Hard drinker
- Hard evidence
- Hard facts
- Hard feelings
- Hard hearted
- Hard hitting
- Hard knocks
- Hard labour
- Hard lines
- Hard liquor
- Hard luck
- Hard nosed
- Hard of hearing
- Hard on
- Hard on the heels of
- Hard pressed
- Hard put to it
- Hard row to hoe
- Hard shell
- Hard stuff
- Hard times
- Hard to come by
- Hard to pin down
- Hard to place
- Hard to swallow
- Hard to take
- Hard up
- Hard words
- Hard work never did anyone any harm
- Hard work never killed anyone
- Hard, cold cash
- Hardy ha ha
- Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
- Hold hard
- Hurry hard
- It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
- It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
- It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
- It's tough at the top
- Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
- Live rough
- Macho man
- Make life difficult
- No hard feelings
- No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
- Old habits die hard
- One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
- Out of the strong came forth sweetness (Lyle's Golden Syrup advertising slogan)
- Play hard to get
- Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
- Put in the hard yards
- Put the hard word on
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Rough and ready
- Rough and tumble
- Rough around the edges
- Rough diamond
- Rough justice
- Rough landing
- Rough out
- Rough ride
- Rough stuff
- Rough trade
- Rough up
- Saturday's child works hard for a living
- School of hard knocks
- Sleep rough
- So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
- Strong in the arm and thick in the head
- Strong medicine
- Strong stomach
- Strong, silent type
- Take a cold hard look
- Take a hard line
- Take the rough with the smooth
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy book)
- That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
- The Boston Strong Boy (Nickname of John L. Sullivan)
- The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
- The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
- The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
- There's never a rough puff in a lucky (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
- To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
- Tough Juice (Nickname of Caron Butler)
- Tough customer
- Tough love
- Tough luck
- Tough nut to crack
- Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
- Tough pill to swallow
- Tough row to hoe
- Tough shit
- Tough titty
- True grit
- Video nasty (a violent or horrific video)
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going (A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy)
- When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
- Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
- Working hard or hardly working?
- Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
Related
- As tough as old boots
- As tough as they come
- As tough as tough
- Built Ford tough (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
- Hang tough
- It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
- It's tough at the top
- One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
- Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
- To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy (M&Ms advertising slogan)
- Tough Juice (Nickname of Caron Butler)
- Tough customer
- Tough love
- Tough luck
- Tough nut to crack
- Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
- Tough pill to swallow
- Tough row to hoe
- Tough shit
- Tough titty
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going (A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy)
- When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping