Meaning of tough luck in English
tough luck
- be all the same to someone idiom
- be no skin off someone's nose idiom
- big deal
- bully
- bully for someone idiom
- damn
- fig
- heck
- I'm not fussy/fussed idiom
- meh
- monkey
- not care/give a fig idiom
- not care/give a sod idiom
- same
- shit
- so what? idiom
- That's not saying much. idiom
- toss
- tough
- tuff
tough (luck) | American Dictionary
tough (luck)
Examples of tough luck
tough luck
The public may have lost out; tough luck.
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For those with environmental concerns, it is just tough luck.
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If that does not satisfy the condition in new clause 27(4), that would be tough luck.
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We heard then of economic implications, imperatives, the market and so forth—and tough luck on the miners, the steel workers and the manufacturing workers.
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It is tough luck on an employer who will have to pay a guaranteed sum when a dispute occurs elsewhere.
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It was tough luck if one was a tenant.
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Some people say that it is tough luck and that it does not matter.
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If supermarkets do not like such an arrangement, that is tough luck on them.
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If it costs more than £30,000 a year, that is tough luck.
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If he cannot do so, it is tough luck—at the top.
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But that is tough luck; people have a right to use footpaths.
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Out he will go and it is just tough luck.
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If the votes fall out in a way that we do not like, that is tough luck.
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It is rather tough luck on the owners of shares in a company which has been capitalised in such a way as to have preference shares rather than debentures.
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If it does not, tough luck.
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