Question of the Day #1139

She’s a tough cookie – Jodie Burrage backed to bounce back from nightmare debut

From the headline of this article at the Independent.

  上記の文で、tough cookieの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "tough cookie" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈主に米俗〉〔肉体的にも精神的にも強い〕タフな［不屈の・手ごわい・したたかな・意志の強い］人

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

a person who is physically and emotionally strong

 

語源

英辞郎によると、

【語源】かみ砕けないほど硬くなったクッキーのイメージから

 

Etymology

According to Idiomic.com:

The first appearance of the now standard ‘tough cookie‘ is just after the end of World War II, but how the ‘tough’ became welded to the baked good is unknown. Also unclear is how the term then came to describe both sexes when it had previously been only applied to women.

   

Examples

1. Chet Hanks, on the other hand, was a tough cookie. —Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
2. He said his wife is a tough cookie, a breast cancer survivor who battled the disease for nearly ten years.
3. And let me tell you something, he's one tough cookie—so be prepared.
4. You have to be a pretty tough cookie to have qualified as a lawyer while raising a family.
5. In a male-dominated field, sometimes I don't get taken seriously. But I'm a tough cookie and the guys quickly learn not to judge me on the way I look.

   

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