tough cookies

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tough cookies

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  1. plural plural of tough cookie

interjection

  1. idiomatic, informal Too bad (for one); the outcome that one desires is not likely to change.

    Similar: tough luck, hard cheese, shit out of luck, tough bananas, tough shit, tough sledding, tough tarts, tough titties, tough titty, tough toodles, tough tuchus

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@misc{tough_cookies_2026,
  title = {tough cookies},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tough%20cookies},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}