The look she sent Daniel was as tough as nails.

I am as tough as nails, and I can do this.

"This horse is as tough as nails and he's exceptional."

I'm as tough as nails is what people say, and I don't ever give up."

"He's as tough as nails and has a reputation to match," says one leisure industry executive.

She never raised her voice, but in the end she was as tough as nails."

"Bobby Battle was brilliant and as tough as nails.

"One has to understand," Baker told me at one point, leaning forward, "this guy is as tough as nails."

You can be as tough as nails."

"In real life, the kid who's as tough as nails on the outside is chromium-plated steel on the inside."

"He was as tough as nails when he needed to be and never shied away from a field confrontation.

In reality, of course, she is as tough as nails and he is as thick as a plank.

They were both retired, both reputedly as tough as nails, both fliers, each devoted to the other.

He's as tough as nails".

He tells young children, "They call me "Nails" because they say I'm as tough as nails.

Mr Kinnock, for all his perceived faults, was, at his best, a true leader of men: inspirational, passionate, committed, and as tough as nails.

Some side sffects can be as tough as nails Manicures and pedicures are perhaps the most common salon treatments, but they're not necessarily the safest.

SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner.

Ulfkingroh was as tough as nails and he worked Coil until the Valeman thought he would drop.

Although Niko has no relation to the Auphe, he is as tough as nails and practices many types of martial arts.

After Bishop's execution, prison director Charles Wolff said that Bishop was "like an iceman" and "as tough as nails to the end".

They were both retired, both fliers, both reputedly as tough as nails, and still crazy in love with each other even after almost five decades of marriage.

In tough times, he said, "you can be as tough as nails, but if people know you really feel for them, and you're being tough to protect the city, then people will trust you.

Acting "as tough as nails," as one Wright aide put it, Mrs. Wright came out of seclusion today to defend herself and her husband, House Speaker Jim Wright.

Back then, on stage, putting the contestants through their paces, she seemed as tough as nails - mouthy, defensive, constantly fiddling with her uncomfortable dress, staring at everyone as if challenging them to a duel.

He's as tough as old boots, but playing with drugs is still a mug's game.

Newcastle the league leaders looked as tough as old boots.

I'm as tough as old boots, I am.

And she has shown already, beneath her frail exterior, Kylie is as tough as old boots.

The captain had the lazy, rather amiable face of the kind of man who usually turns out to be as tough as old boots underneath.

'But she's as tough as old boots.'

On the other hand, the country is developed beyond any other in Africa, and its economic system is, as Mr. Keys observes, "as tough as old boots."

"She's as tough as old boots to work with," he said of Sozzani, noting that when she didn't like a layout, she would say to him, coyly, "You know, everyone likes this one better."

Stars of mid to late-summer, with their silver buds on lofty stems, open, shiny white, yellow-centred flowers and robust dark green foliage, they are as tough as old boots, admirably shade-tolerant and pleasantly "structural" in winter.

Do you remember old Edwina Currie saying in an interview, she was talking about John Major and she said 'oh, don't worry about John Major, he can hold his own, he's as tough as old boots'.

But under the capable tuition of Lapponia Safaris ' guides Antii and Jari, both as tough as old boots but with no smack of the sergeant-major about them, I wasn't going to be allowed to put too many feet wrong.