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词汇 tough-luck
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tough luck


idiom informal (offensivetough shit)
said to show that you have no sympathy for someone's problems or difficulties: 活该(表示不同情)
"They lost a lot of money on their investment." "Tough luck - they should have been more careful."“他们的投资损失惨重。”“活该——谁叫他们不小心呢。”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Expressions meaning 'it isn't important to me'
be all the same to someoneidiom
be no skin off someone's noseidiom
big deal
bully
bully for someoneidiom
damn
fig
heck
I'm not fussy/fussedidiom
meh
monkey
not care/give a figidiom
not care/give a sodidiom
same
shit
so what?idiom
That's not saying much.idiom
toss
tough
tuff

tough (luck) | American Dictionary


tough (luck)


idiom
I do not have any sympathy for your problems:
Anyone who misses three classes will fail, and if you don’t like it, tough.

Examples of tough luck


tough luck
The public may have lost out; toughluck.
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For those with environmental concerns, it is just toughluck.
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If that does not satisfy the condition in new clause 27(4), that would be toughluck.
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We heard then of economic implications, imperatives, the market and so forth—and toughluck on the miners, the steel workers and the manufacturing workers.
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It is toughluck on an employer who will have to pay a guaranteed sum when a dispute occurs elsewhere.
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It was toughluck if one was a tenant.
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Some people say that it is toughluck and that it does not matter.
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If supermarkets do not like such an arrangement, that is toughluck on them.
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If it costs more than £30,000 a year, that is toughluck.
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If he cannot do so, it is toughluck—at the top.
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But that is toughluck; people have a right to use footpaths.
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Out he will go and it is just toughluck.
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If the votes fall out in a way that we do not like, that is toughluck.
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It is rather toughluck on the owners of shares in a company which has been capitalised in such a way as to have preference shares rather than debentures.
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If it does not, toughluck.
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