"tough break" meaning in English

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          "text": "So I close by saying that I might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.",
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        "A situation resulting in misfortune or hardship; an instance of bad luck."
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        "(idiomatic) A situation resulting in misfortune or hardship; an instance of bad luck."
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          "ref": "1966, Charles Dizenzo, A Great Career, Dramatists Play Service, page 16:",
          "text": "Tough break, Linda.",
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          "ref": "1990, Rickley S. Christian, Alive 2, Campus Life Books, page 120",
          "text": "My reaction? Tough break, chump."
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        "An interjection of mild or insincere sympathy for someone else's misfortune."
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        "(idiomatic) An interjection of mild or insincere sympathy for someone else's misfortune."
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          "word": "hard cheese"
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        {
          "word": "hard lines"
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        {
          "word": "hard luck"
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        {
          "word": "tough cookies"
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        {
          "word": "tough luck"
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        {
          "word": "tough shit"
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        {
          "word": "tough titties"
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        {
          "word": "tough titty"
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        {
          "word": "tough toodles"
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    {
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    {
      "word": "tough luck"
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