tough nut

Idioms and Phrases

see hard nut to crack .

Example Sentences

Altogether, it is a very tough nut to crack, and the force at our disposal none too strong for the work that lies before it.

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Drank rum by the hogshead, pounded his wife till she left him, and was a tough nut gin'rally.

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"H'm, and a pretty tough nut to crack," threw in Cleek with a little laugh.

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Point is that Houck, who always was a t-tough nut, has gone bad since the boys rode him on a rail.

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This particular member of the force was an unusually tough nut to crack.

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