Question of the Day #1141

If you get hit by a truck, you can claim compensation. But if you are injured and mentally scarred in a plane crash, tough cookies.

From the lede of this article at Crikey.

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

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解答

意味：
このイディオムは、Question of the Day #1139と同じようで確かにそのイディオムの複数形の場合があります。ただ、その他に下記の全然違う意味もあります。 The Free Dictionaryによると、

間投詞として相手の状況や考えに同情できない時をあらわします。

  また、Wiktionaryによると、

（話している相手に対して）残念・望んでいる結果になりそうもない

の意味もあります。
「残念だね。でも、私には関係ない。」のニュアンスです。

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

An interjection indicating that one has no sympathy for the situation another person is in or how that person feels about it.

  Also, according to Wiktionary it can mean

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

 

Examples

1. Sam: "When you said I'd be getting a car for my birthday, I didn't think it would be some beat-up old van like this!" Dad: "Well, tough cookies! You should be thankful to have a car at all!"
2. A: "Ugh, I feel so horrible this morning." B: "Tough cookies. If you want to drink yourself silly, then that's the price you pay."
3. If you say “tough cookies” to someone who’s endured some bad luck, perhaps, or suffered some sort of setback, you’re showing no compassion for that person or for the situation.
4. The English language is constantly evolving. Oxford Dictionaries famously updates its book four times a year, and once a word is added to the dictionary, it can never be removed. That means it's a hard world out there for a new word. Unless linguistic experts can verify that a term has genuinely entered the language, it's tough cookies.

   

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