a tough cookie
11tough\ cookie — n. phr. An extremely determined, hardheaded person, or someone with whom it is unusually difficult to deal. Marjorie is a very pretty girl, but when it comes to business she sure is one tough cookie …
12Tough cookie — A tough cookie is a person who will do everthing necessary to achieve what they want …
13(a) tough cookie — American & Australian, informal someone who is very determined to do what they want and who usually succeeds even in difficult situations. We re talking about a woman who brought up six children on her own she s one tough cookie …
14tough cookie — strong person who doesn t give up …
15tough cookie — Noun. A strong unyielding person …
16tough cookie — …
17cookie — ► NOUN (pl. cookies) 1) N. Amer. a sweet biscuit. 2) informal a person of a specified kind: she s a tough cookie. ● the way the cookie crumbles Cf. ↑the way the cookie crumbles ORIGIN Dutch koekje little cak …
18cookie — not cooky, is the established spelling in its various meanings: in AmE ‘a biscuit’ and (slang) a person (as in tough cookie), in Scottish ‘a plain bun’. Since the 1980s cookie has become more familiar in all forms of English as a computing term… …
19tough — tough1 W3S2 [tʌf] adj comparative tougher superlative toughest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(difficult)¦ 2¦(strong person)¦ 3¦(strong material)¦ 4¦(strict/firm)¦ 5¦(violent area)¦ 6 tough!/that s tough! 7 tough luck! …
20cookie — I. /ˈkʊki/ (say kookee) –noun (plural cookies) 1. Chiefly US a biscuit. 2. Colloquial a person: a smart cookie; a tough cookie. 3. Internet a. Also, browser cookie. a small data file containing details of a user s identification, sent by a web… …
