The phrase "tough advice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to guidance or recommendations that are difficult to hear or follow but are ultimately beneficial.
Example: "Sometimes, tough advice is what we need to make significant changes in our lives."
Alternatives: "hard truths" or "difficult guidance".
That turns out to be tough advice for many players to follow.
They deliver some tough advice to makers of flabby policy — warning them against unrealistic expectations and half-measures.
In giving tough advice to Europe, "in a sense the I.M.F. is returning to its roots," said James Raymond Vreeland, a political scientist at Georgetown University.
Here's some tough advice that anyone who ever had a wilted houseplant or sick pet doesn't want to hear: sometimes it's best to let things die.
If American investors are looking for tough advice, they will get it from Sir John M. Templeton, 88, the noted investor who founded the Templeton mutual fund family.
I can see that Samuel Beckett's tough advice "fail again, fail better" is not best suited to infant minds; no one wishes to see pupils discouraged by impossible standards.
There is no simpler, or tougher, advice.
Corporate governance experts have praised these moves, saying that a board dominated by outsiders gives tough, independent advice and offers a broad range of perspectives.
This evolution, over the last decade, has made boards better at dispensing tough, objective advice, governance experts say, and may even be playing a role in American companies' current run of success.
We end this clip with some more tough love advice for those pitching Greylock: If you're comparing yourself to existing hot companies, you probably don't have a new enough idea.
Yep, more tough love advice.
