But before you quit turkey hunting and take up model-train collecting, let me give you the good news: you can score ontough turkeys. In fact, you can kill thetoughest turkey in the woods.
1998, Lois Liederman Davitz, Joel Robert Davitz,20Tough Questions Teenagers Ask and 20Tough Answers, Paulist Press,pages 6-7,
But let's get back to thetough question about sex before marriage. And this is atough question. In fact we would rank the question you've both raised as pretty high on our list oftough questions.
Anderson: We fought hard to get here. But now thetoughest part of our mission begins. Anderson: We've got to drive right through the heart of Reaper-controlled territory, break past their defenses, and get to that beacon.
2010, Rushworth M. Kidder,Good Kids,Tough Choices,Wiley (Jossey-Bass),page 96,
What Lara faced, in fact, falls right into the pool of light beneath our second lens: makingtough choices.
(material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
2024 January 27, Priscilla Alvarez, “Biden seizes on tougher border measures as he tries to fend off Trump attacks”, inCNN[1]:
President Joe Biden is embracingtougher border measures, including shutting down the US-Mexico border, marking a stark shift from his early days in office as he tries to fend off former President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigration policy ahead of the election.
A person who obtains things by force; athug orbully.
They were doing fine until they encountered a bunch oftoughs from the opposition.
2018, Sandeep Jauhar,Heart: a History,→ISBN, page54:
He was in his early fifties, extensively tattooed, just the sort oftough I wouldn't want to meet alone in a parking lot at night, but right then he was whimpering.
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2009, Paul Walsh,You and I and Others,→ISBN, pages64 - 65:
We shall reminisce on how wetoughed it through the winters as they reached the firm, long arm around to give the cold embrace, with ardor seldom loosed till warm winds Marched or Apriled in to soften winter's knuckles -- send rivulets of courage down to dandelions and tulips.
2011, Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls,The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861,→ISBN, page254:
“No,” said Minott, “I'vetoughed it through the winter, and i want to stay and hear the bluebirds once more.
2012, Jerry Hopkins -,Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat,→ISBN:
Universal Plant Edibility Test The following sounds like a lot of work—it is!—but that's because it comes from the US Army Survival Manual as republished in 1994 as "a civilian's best guide fortoughing it, anyplace in the world...a must for campers, hikers, explorers, pilots, and others whose vocation or avocations require familiarity with the wilderness or out-of-doors..."
