| 单词 | tough love |
| 释义 | tough loveuncountable noun Tough love is the practice of being very strict with someone in order to help them overcome a problem with their behaviour. The warden runs the prison with his personal brand of tough love. tough love in British Englishnoun the practice of taking a stern attitude towards a relative or friend with an addiction, etc, to help the addict overcome the problem tough love in American English US a disciplinary technique, as for a young person or a loved one, in which a seemingly harsh or unfeeling course of action is chosen deliberately over one demonstrating the tenderness or forbearance instinctively felt Word origin < TOUGHLOVE, a trademark for a program offering family counseling |
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