"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 • ...
adverbio + tough
Kolokacji: 25
pretty tough • particularly tough • extremely tough • far tougher • mentally tough • ...
1. pretty tough = całkiem nieustępliwy pretty tough
2. somewhat tougher = nieco bardziej nieustępliwy somewhat tougher
3. fairly tough = dość nieustępliwy fairly tough
  • It just so happened that he'd had a fairly tough break.
  • The gym class was fairly tough but it could have been a lot tougher.
  • Eventually, a deal was reached on insurance for player contracts and a fairly tough drug testing standard.
  • To produce these pictures the paper must be fairly tough if they are to be kept.
  • The French, who have been fairly tough on their collaborators, puzzle me.
  • "The next 18 months are going to be fairly tough," he said.
  • That makes it, I think, fairly tough to keep up with.
  • That's pretty good in a, in a year that has been fairly tough.
  • I like to have a fairly tough action, and for slide I'll string from a 16 gauge top to a 58 bottom.
  • "This is a fairly tough time, with the auto market a big part of our precision spring business," he said.
4. slightly tough = trochę nieustępliwy slightly tough
5. extraordinarily tough = niezwykle nieustępliwy extraordinarily tough
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(5) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(6) incredibly, unbelievably
Kolokacji: 2
(7) surprisingly, unexpectedly
Kolokacji: 2
tough + preposición
Kolokacji: 11
tough on • tough for • tough with • tough in • tough to • ...

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