tough cookie

基本解釋

She owns a seedy bar and she believes she is a tough cookie.
她擁有一個(gè)破舊的酒吧，她認(rèn)為自己是個(gè)堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的女人。
Without the boxes, said James T. Francis, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Air France case will be “a tough, tough cookie.”
James T. Francis，一位法國(guó)國(guó)家運(yùn)輸部安全委員會(huì)的成員說：“如果黑盒子無(wú)法找到，那么法航的這次墜機(jī)事將是一個(gè)十分棘手的問題?！?/li>
A tough cookie is not something you want to eat. It is a person who is difficult to deal with, and would do anything necessary to get what he or she wants.
（強(qiáng)硬的人）”并不是某種你想吃的東西，它的意思是指某個(gè)難以應(yīng)付的人，他（她）會(huì)為了得到所想的東西而不折手段。

"If he wanted to win and be received as a tough cookie, he had to do what it took, " Washington says.
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He worked directly for Sylvan Coleman, chairman of the board and a very tough and demanding cookie.
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If you describe someone as a tough cookie, you mean that they are unemotional and are not easily hurt by what people say or do.