"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 • ...
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(5) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(6) incredibly, unbelievably
Kolokacji: 2
1. incredibly tough = niewiarygodnie nieustępliwy incredibly tough
2. unbelievably tough = niewiarygodnie nieustępliwy unbelievably tough
  • It will be an unbelievably tough match.
  • We've just had some unbelievably tough losses lately.
  • It was impossible that any man could be so tenacious of life, so unbelievably tough.
  • These guys were unbelievably tough guys.
  • Weakly pulsing, apparently utterly exhausted, it covered the man's body with a thin, unbelievably tough membrane.
  • That stuff is unbelievably tough.
  • Catching the ball underneath the basket and trying to score is an unbelievably tough task.
  • "I'm not going to sit up here and say something stupid, like this is not an unbelievably tough challenge," said George Karl, Seattle's coach.
  • Four hours in that heat is unbelievably tough.
  • "The short putts are unbelievably tough," he said.
(7) surprisingly, unexpectedly
Kolokacji: 2
tough + preposición
Kolokacji: 11
tough on • tough for • tough with • tough in • tough to • ...

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