Tough act to follow
hard act to follow
touch with a ten-foot pole
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Also, tough luck. A trying or troublesome circumstance, bad luck, as in He got a tough break when he was denied a raise, or Tough luck for the team last night. This idiom uses tough in the sense of “difficult,” a usage dating from the early 1600s. The variant is also used as a sarcastic […]
- Tough cookie
tough act to follow
- Tough cop
tough call
- Tough customer
noun a difficult person to deal with Examples Teenage girls can be tough customers for their parents. Usage Note slang tough cookie
- Toughen
verb (used with or without object) 1. to make or become tough or tougher. verb 1. to make or become tough or tougher