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单词 tough as boots or leather
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tough as (old) boots or leather
b. tough as (old) boots or leather. Frequently figurative, implying sense A. 4.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > coarse or tough
toughc1400
boisterous1483
fulsome1555
foul1560
rough1583
coarse1607
indelicate1751
tough as (old) boots or leather1843
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > robust
strongeOE
hardOE
stalworthc1175
starka1250
stiff1297
steel to the (very) backa1300
stalworthyc1300
wightc1300
stable13..
valiant1303
stithc1325
toughc1330
wrast1338
stoura1350
sadc1384
wighty14..
derfc1440
substantialc1460
well-jointed1483
felon1487
robust1490
stalwart1508
stoutya1529
robustous?1531
rankc1540
hardy1548
robustious1548
stout1576
rustical1583
rustic1620
iron1638
robustic1652
swankinga1704
strapping1707
rugged1731
solid1741
vaudy1793
flaithulach1829
ironbark1833
swankie1838
tough as (old) boots or leather1843
skookum1847
hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862
hard-assed1954
nails1974
1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 219 The ‘cold fowl’ was..as tough as leather.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xiii. 213 She's as tough as old boots.
1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day iv. 111 Joe Ackworth's more the type. He's as tough as old leather.
1967 Listener 7 Dec. 765/1 This is no sweet old dolly... She is tough as old boots, working for a living.
1981 M. Hatfield Spy Fever i. iii. 31 Colonel Theakston was..as the saying goes, as tough as old boots.
extracted from toughadj.adv.n.
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