The phrase "rough it out" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone is facing a difficult situation and is struggling to get through it. For example: "I know it isn't easy, but just rough it out and you'll make it to the other side."
"It's going to be a long tough road, but we're going to rough it out, and we're going to be the nominee," said John Catsimatidis, a supermarket magnate who organized one of Wednesday's fund-raisers.
So without any financial resources, a job, or help from her own family, my mother decided the only option was to rough it out with my dad.
While I can rough it out and take anything that comes at me, when it comes to our children I take things on a whole different level and it impacts a deeper inner core that is usually protected and secured from everyday life and work challenges.
Travelers are glorified because they take the road less traveled, make an effort to engulf themselves in the local culture and rough it out.
"There's roughing it out, shaping and then detail.
11.42am: Last night Michael Hann roughed it out with Daniel Craig in gangster thriller Layer Cake.
Lennon brought the song to the studio in November 1966, roughing it out on guitar for his brother Beatles and for George Martin, who later described the occasion as "a great privilege".
Anyway, you will all be happy to know that, apropos Olivegate, I have definitely decided to leave London – so if anyone wants me, I'll be roughing it out in the wilds of Hampstead.
In order to have the time (and the money) to do so, he roughed it out in the woods of British Columbia for ten years and lived in an 8 x 12 micro-cabin in Montana for another five.
These fantasy cabins really take the "roughing it" out of going to the mountains and are the ten most expensive on the market in Colorado, according to Realtor.com -- the cheapest one would still set you back a cool $9 million.
The Mexican president is faulted for starting a head-on assault on the heavily armed cartels without first gathering intelligence on them, without first preparing a trustworthy police force to take them on, without preparing the country for how rough it would turn out to be.
