tough break

艰难的突破艰难的休息时间艰难的休息艰难的休息日

tough break 的定义

  1. 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 interjection, as in So you didn't make straight A's—tough luck! A slangy variant of this interjection is tough beans, and a ruder version is tough shit. [Colloquial; c. 1900]

tough break 近义词

tough break

等同于 bad luck

tough break

等同于 distress

tough break

等同于 hardship

更多tough break例句

  1. This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
  2. I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
  3. His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.
  4. “You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.
  5. This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.
  6. Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
  7. If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
  8. General Houston had attacked them with three hundred of our people, but had not been able to break their ranks.
  9. For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.
  10. Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.