tough break 的定义
- 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
等同于 bad luck
等同于 distress
tough break 的近义词 35 个
- bummer
- calamity
- catastrophe
- crunch
- destitution
- difficulty
- disaster
- downer
- drag
- exigency
- indigence
- jam
- misfortune
- need
- pickle
- pinch
- poverty
- privation
- rigor
- scrape
- throe
- trial
- trouble
- vicissitude
- want
- bad luck
- can of worms
- hard knocks
- hard time
- holy mess
- hot water
- rotten luck
- ticklish spot
- tough luck
- unholy mess
tough break 的反义词 21 个
等同于 hardship
tough break 的近义词 48 个
- adversity
- calamity
- catastrophe
- danger
- difficulty
- disaster
- discomfort
- fatigue
- grief
- hazard
- injury
- misery
- misfortune
- oppression
- peril
- persecution
- sorrow
- suffering
- torment
- trouble
- worry
- accident
- affliction
- asperity
- austerity
- case
- curse
- destitution
- distress
- drudgery
- grievance
- labor
- mischance
- need
- privation
- rigor
- toil
- travail
- trial
- tribulation
- vicissitude
- want
- herculean task
- hard knocks
- rainy day
- rotten luck
- tough luck
- uphill battle
tough break 的反义词 38 个
更多tough break例句
- This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
- I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
- His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.
- “You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.
- This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.
- Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
- If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
- General Houston had attacked them with three hundred of our people, but had not been able to break their ranks.
- For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.
- Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.