tough cookie

Some of the women who come here are tough cookies.

I know him as a guy who's a tough cookie late in the game.

I have a feeling she's a very tough little cookie, and that we're not going to like what we find.

He was a really tough cookie and it paid off for me.

They tell me down here that you're a tough cookie.

Maybe she'd have a girl, one more tough cookie to continue the family tradition.

There is a good reason we have to be "a little like tough cookies" at times.

One might say I can be quite a tough cookie to crack.

But earlier you were saying that women who come to Oxford are tough cookies.

I'm a tough cookie, but I was just so miserable.