| 单词 | tough guy |
| 释义 | > as lemmastough guy tough guy n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a person not easily injured or thwarted; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > robustness > person stalworthc1400 Ironsidea1470 stalwart1508 iron man1643 pine knot1836 iron woman1900 hard rock1922 toughie1929 tough guy1932 hard-ass1962 hardbody1980 1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan vi. 279 He pretended that he had cleaned up all the tough guys on Fifty-eighth Street. 1938 L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry viii. 149 E. E. Cummings, the ‘tough-guy’ American poet. 1946 R. Chandler Let. 30 May in Sel. Lett. (1981) 75 Bogart, of course, is..much better than any other tough-guy actor... Ladd is..a small boy's idea of a tough guy. 1946 H. Croome Faithless Mirror vii. 75 Tough guys with a heart of gold. 1981 J. Dunning Deadline (1982) xix. 187 At the bottom of that tough-guy facade, you're just like all the rest... Scared to death. < as lemmas |
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