talk tough

We are going to talk tough and hope for the best.

At the same time, the government is also talking tough to the other side.

She must have had a lot of experience talking tough to older people.

You talk tough but inside you're just like all the rest of us.

That means the group needs to talk tough for a while longer.

It has been talking tough on the issue for more than a week now.

Now it's easy to talk tough about stuff like that.

Then there's the very real problem of talking tough with little or nothing to back it up.

It's talking tough, but the results remain to be seen.

Whether talking tough on immigration will help them is another matter.

Both men who signed Friday's deal were still talking tough.

At the same time, Communist party officials continue to talk tough.

And though his sister talked tough, she was just a kid really.

It did no good to talk tough with a lawyer, he knew that.

I'm too afraid they'll get us while we're not talking tough.

Which may leave other European leaders talking tough but unable to get their way.

As a career politician, he knows how to talk tough.

He's not a guy who walks around and talks tough.

In this campaign year, everyone seems to be talking tough about pension costs.

In the past, he has often talked tough, but paid a high price to secure a deal.

But he's talking tough medicine, and I think that's good.

Analysts say the government may be talking tough because of growing opposition within the country.

So far, American officials have talked tough without making any direct military threats.

"It is easy to say you ought to talk tough," the official said.

But now it's just kids talking tough, not a constant and ongoing thing.