tough luck
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| Noun | 1. | tough luck - an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomescircumstances, luck, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion - your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" weakness - the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen" adversity, hard knocks, hardship - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" gutter, sewer, toilet - misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" hard cheese - bad luck |
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حَظ سَيِّء
smůla
uheld
óheppni
şanssızlık
tough
(taf) adjective1. strong; not easily broken, worn out etc. Plastic is a tough material.
2. (of food etc) difficult to chew.
3. (of people) strong; able to bear hardship, illness etc. She must be tough to have survived such a serious illness.
4. rough and violent. It's a tough neighbourhood.
5. difficult to deal with or overcome. a tough problem; The competition was really tough.
noun a rough, violent person; a bully.
ˈtoughness nounˈtoughen verb
to make or become tough.
tough luck bad luck. That was tough luck.
get tough with (someone) to deal forcefully with or refuse to yield to (a person). When he started to argue, I got tough with him.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
tough luck - an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes