Sentence examples for toughie from inspiring English sources

That fact persuaded both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that the Home Office was just the place for Mr Blunkett Mr Blair in the expectation that a populist toughie would be running Whitehall's trickiest and most accident-prone department; Mr Brown in the hope that a potential rival would be diminished by the impossibility of the job.

As to how politicians are supposed to handle that interaction given the more unsavoury aspects of Mr Arafat's history, not to mention the way a photo might play to pro-Israeli constituencies at home, well, it's a toughie.

Soon after, Mr Davis won the endorsement of David Willetts, earlier a leadership contender himself and by some way the Conservative Party's most lucid thinker.Mr Willetts's support is of great importance to Mr Davis, who needs to shed the image of a right-wing toughie.

They're just another variant on the same old duo - neurotic toughie vs loveable, malleable flake.

Mr. Green said that he graduated from the Theatre School of Dramatic Arts, and specializes in comedy and toughie parts.

My mother was quite a toughie.

She's a toughie.

"As far as the message goes, it's a real toughie to defend".