Term Gallery logo

Meanings of tough cookie in English

We have no meanings for "tough cookie" in our records yet.
Usage of tough cookie in English
1
There's a tough cookie called Pagan, who needs to be tough.
Radio NZ
2
Sitting down opposite Erlendur, she looked like a real tough cookie.
Arctic chill
3
Underneath all that blond hair, she looks like one tough cookie.
Danielle Steel
4
Justine Henin-Hardenne is what the Americans call a tough cookie.
The Irish Times
5
The result is a tough cookie of an album.
The Guardian
6
England's leading test run-scorer is a tough cookie indeed.
Reuters
7
Have you forgotten what a tough cookie I am?
Shadow zone
8
Despite her statuesque appearance, she was one tough cookie.
Beauty and the feast
9
I was one tough cookie before I hit eight.
Solomon's oak: a novel
10
A tough cookie like herself could handle him and think about the argument with Gabby later.
Mad enough to marry
11
She'd want to be some tough cookie altogether.
The Irish Times
12
He is one tough cookie, she told him.
Hearts of grey
13
And that's even worse than a tough cookie.
The Guardian
14
One tough cookie, that's what they'd said about Heather Hintzpeter, and, goddamn it, they were right.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
15
I wanted to become a tough cookie, someone who would never again get scammed by a friend.
With friends like these
16
He's a tough cookie, Trump told reporters.
Reuters
This collocation consists of:
Tough cookie through the time
Tough cookie across language varieties
United States of America
Common