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Idioms and Phrases

Remain firmly resolved, as in We're going to hang tough on this point and not give in . This slangy idiom uses tough in the sense of “aggressively unyielding,” a usage dating from the first half of the 1900s.
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Example Sentences

Constantine writes that he and the governor's wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, urged Eliot to hang tough, but the governor refused.

And no one is talking about how to make these regulators hang tough for decades to come.

Hang tough, Bill, said one man quietly; and then in a second the slightly superior brains in Sheedys head had turned the battle.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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