| 单词 | tough nut |
| 释义 | > as lemmastough nut tough nut n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a person difficult or dangerous to deal with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult thing or person sluta1475 nut1540 Tartar1669 bitch1699 handful1755 tickler1825 pebble1829 hard ticket1847 tough nut1862 bear1876 Roger1885 trier1893 peb1903 heller1923 pawful1925 honey1932 sod1936 toughie1945 motherfucker1948 hard-arse1966 1862 in E. W. Pearson Lett. from Port Royal (1906) 81 There are a great many men of twenty-five to forty, ‘tough-nuts’ many of them. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant xxv. 263 His father was rather a tough nut. 1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape viii. 83 Say, yuh're some hard-lookin' guy, ain't yuh? I seen lots of tough nuts dat de gang called gorillas, but yuh're de foist real one I ever seen. 1950 Times 12 May 7/7 For the ‘tough nut’ the youth club as at present constituted offered no fold. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds x. 236 Meggie was going to be a tough nut to crack and he couldn't afford to frighten or disgust her... He'd woo her the way she obviously wanted. < as lemmas |
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