Sentence examples similar to tough knock from inspiring English sources

What we have seen this tournament is that two teams [New Zealand and Australia] have romped through easy pools and it has not prepared them rugby-wise for tough knock-out games.

Certainly, I owe a fair portion of my own admiration for the noble losers and beautiful fools in life to Fitzgerald, Joyce, and the memory of Irish ancestors whose dreams somehow survived the tough knocks of history.

"It was one of my tougher knocks," Levi said.

A pair of toughs knocked on the door of the Nichols house at No. 4 one night and forced their way in past a maid and Olney Talas, the "second man," in the words of The Times.

His ambitious, guitar-based songs inject crooning neo-soul with introspective narratives about hard knocks and tough choices.

But if they make it, the Royals could be tough to knock out.

"It's really tough to knock it down and make yourself believe and make yourself trust yourself," she said.

She continues: "Were we supposed to be earth mothers hoeing the garden and having babies, or be tough and knock back Southern Comforts like Janis Joplin?

Joe Posnanski of SI.com delves into just what makes Coughlin so tough to knock down, and Joe Saraceno writes in USA Today that he has earned the grudging respect of his players.

They're surprisingly comfortable, and are tough to knock loose.

But it's tough to knock out the champ.