单词 | tough-strung |
释义 | > as lemmastough-strung 11. In combination (chiefly parasynthetic) with other adjectives, as tough-backed, tough-hided (in quots. figurative), tough-looking, tough-metalled, tough-necked, tough-shelled, tough-skinned, tough-strung. ΚΠ 1637 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Elder Brother v. i. sig. I3v A true tough metal'd blade. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 14 A tough-back't Knave. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 644 Their solid bones, their tough-strung muscles, their strong-bounding blood. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Let. to J. Gillman in Lett. (1895) 743 Nature is..tough-lived as a turtle. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 132 A tall, spare, tough-looking woman, with a long bony face. 1872 R. Browning Fifine xxxi Unsensitive, tough-thonged In lieu of our fine nerve. 1925 D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 158 She felt a peculiar tough-necked arrogance in him. 1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music vi. 249 It would take a good deal..to harm a tough-hided old hippopotamus like Uncle Tom. 1933 C. S. Lewis Pilgrim's Regress vii. v. 146 I always think it is possible for a place to be too bracing. They call it the land of the tough-minded—tough-skinned would be a better name. 1964 Listener 30 Apr. 731/3 A tough-hided, soft-centred, north-country, working-class dramatist. < as lemmas |
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