tough cookie

I know him as a guy who's a tough cookie late in the game.

Some of the women who come here are tough cookies.

They tell me down here that you're a tough cookie.

He was a really tough cookie and it paid off for me.

There is a good reason we have to be "a little like tough cookies" at times.

One might say I can be quite a tough cookie to crack.

Maybe she'd have a girl, one more tough cookie to continue the family tradition.

But earlier you were saying that women who come to Oxford are tough cookies.

I'm a tough cookie, but I was just so miserable.

Oh, yes - they'll know they've been dealing with one tough cookie this time!

The German therapist turns out to be one tough cookie.

Now mind your own business, and Skye, stop being such a tough cookie.

She's a tough cookie, but always with the grace of God."

"Now my partner, Maria, is going to play a tough cookie."

Of the two, Nancy is the tougher cookie, strong and athletic, used to holding things together.

"Hey, I thought you were a tough cookie," he said.

What's a little concussion to a tough cookie like you?"

"They want to build a reputation that they are really tough cookies."

He was an excellent leader on the field and was a pretty tough cookie too.

"Margie's a tough cookie, but on this one she's completely right."

They were a couple of tough cookies though.

Being a dedicated tough cookie, he has delivered the goods in impressive manner.

New York's a tough cookie, but it's also supportive if it likes you."

Mo has also been described as a "tough cookie" and a "fighter".

Anna, such a tough cookie at work, needs to seriously re-evaluate her love choices.