hang tough

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.

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg