"tough" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tough adjetivo

tough + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 292

tough time • tough guy • tough decision • tough question • tough job • tough choice • tough competition • tough challenge • tough fight • ...

verbo + tough

Kolokacji: 12

look tough • talk tough • hang tough • play tough • act tough • ...

Kolokacji: 7

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) look, talk, play, act, sound, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(2) hang, prove, get, become, grow, ...

Kolokacji: 6

1. hang tough = nie dawać się, trzymać się swojego hang tough

2. prove tough = okaż się nieustępliwy prove tough

3. get tougher = stój się bardziej nieustępliwy get tougher

get tough

4. become tougher = stój się bardziej nieustępliwy become tougher

5. grow tougher = stój się bardziej nieustępliwy grow tougher

6. make tougher = uczyń bardziej nieustępliwy make tougher

Finally, after a tough afternoon against the Dodgers made tougher by fans booing him, he heard cheers.
If anything, made tougher; I could see it in their eyes.
The wording of the rule itself, made tougher after 9/11, is classified.
The law against acid attackers needs to be made tougher.
The effort by business to focus its message is made tougher by the blurry ideological lines of today's politics.
As I said earlier, they'll need to be made even tougher.
It works, handsomely, but needs to be made tougher still.
The rule was made tougher five years ago.
The task was made tougher still by the fact that many of the circuits had been damaged by the power surge.
The vote is made tougher for Democrats by the unions' increasingly hostile relationship with the administration.

adverbio + tough

Kolokacji: 25

pretty tough • particularly tough • extremely tough • far tougher • mentally tough • ...

tough + preposición

Kolokacji: 11

tough on • tough for • tough with • tough in • tough to • ...

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