get-tough

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Examples

• In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?

• His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.

• “You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

• After a bunch of tough talk, this round of the hacker-on-hacker fight nevered materialized.

• The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.

• But this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.

• "Tough—but most of us have been there, one time or another," Goodell observed sympathetically; and with that the subject rested.

• You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.

• The man called Shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.

• Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service station.