toughie

"We were not toughies and they made us toughies – I became a trained infantry man," he said.

Quiz five out of five and this one is a toughie.

When the waitress, a toughie who intimidated us when she took our order, brought out the soup, she glared at us as she dropped it at the table.

Mind you, the first knockout hurdle on the road to Istanbul looks a toughie.

The Supreme Court will end up hearing about 70 cases a year — in theory the toughest of the toughies — and 40% of the time the justices will still issue a unanimous ruling.