"do it tough" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: EN-AU ck1 do it tough.ogg [Australia], En-au-do it tough.ogg [Australia] Forms: does it tough [present, singular, third-person], doing it tough [participle, present], did it tough [past], done it tough [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|do<does,,did,done> it tough}} do it tough (third-person singular simple present does it tough, present participle doing it tough, simple past did it tough, past participle done it tough)
  1. (intransitive, Australia, idiomatic, informal) To be in a desperate situation; to struggle. Tags: Australia, idiomatic, informal, intransitive Translations (be in a desperate situation): 不可終日 (Chinese Mandarin), 不可终日 (bùkězhōngrì) (Chinese Mandarin), 掙扎 (zhēngzhá) (Chinese Mandarin), être dans la dèche (French), être dans la mouise (French), être dans le pétrin (French), passar por dificuldades (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

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