tough **** , auch: teugh ScoE

My family has gone through some real tough times as of late.

Going home 2-0 would have been tough to come back.

The place we weren't tough enough was in our heart.

I knew he was tough and would come at me.

Just a tough day at the office for us today.

I had a lot of tough personal problems at home.

I knew we were going to be tough to run down.

We've been through some tough times in the last two years.

And you thought things were tough in your line of work.

A tough job, but what better way to get out and about?

Today, he had some tough words for them as well.

To have to play the whole season again is tough.

I didn't think the boy would be too tough to find.

You could probably say he's tough to get to know.

The year 2002 was a tough one for our company.

For the next five months, the King took a tough line.

To some students, the tough market means living at home after college.

Getting money from them's tough enough at the best of times.

In the first part, I thought we had a tough start.

We don't even have a tough guy on our team.

Kids like us had to be tough in those days.

Having your wife take up with another man was tough.

As before, her voice was tough and to the point.

But let me tell you, the first couple of minutes were tough.

He was going to have a tough job on his hands.

Soon, local toughs were pushing their way into the market.

"How are you going to keep those same toughs from making their own copies?"

The town toughs would know better than to mess with them.

Then a couple of toughs came round the corner and went for us.

She described the manner in which he lost his life at the hands of some local toughs.

The old man put a smile on his face and nodded at the three toughs.

He looked off to the side, where a couple of street toughs were playing cards at another table.

Others give away their dogs when threatened by street toughs.

Some of the toughs around town were talking a lynching party.

This time, the murderer had to send some toughs to clear the way for him.

A few days later, another gang of toughs made the same discovery.

The toughs still able to run did so, leaving a trail of weapons behind.

That last was a luxury I should not have allowed myself, for the toughs were on me.

Why do all those would-be toughs talk like echoes of each other?

But if you ask me, those two toughs are our meat."

Who would want him dead badly enough to hire toughs to do it?

He put his head down and aimed between two toughs, a shoulder taking each one in the chest.

"I saw what you did in the street out there to the gang of toughs," said the priest.

Those two men are not toughs or cutthroats, as you suggest.

For several months after Carol took the business over, some local toughs had taken to hanging out at the store.

I saw a small Japanese man handle five toughs, nearly twice his size.

Drawing their knives, two other toughs moved out of sight.

But he'd pictured a crowd of toughs in some back room, not an organization such as this.

But what I found of peculiar interest is that these same toughs destroyed their city even when they won.

"So we have to assume someone paid two street toughs to dose you with the stuff."