Antonyms for tough break
Grammar : Noun |
- abundance
- advantage
- aid
- assistance
- benefit
- blessing
- boon
- calmness
- cheer
- comfort
- compliment
- contentment
- delight
- ease
- entertainment
- favor
- fortune
- fun
- gain
- good
- good fortune
- good luck
- happiness
- health
- help
- joy
- luxury
- mildness
- miracle
- peace
- pleasure
- plenty
- praise
- profit
- prosperity
- relief
- safety
- security
- success
- wealth
- wonder
Definition of tough break
- As in bad luck : noun rotten break
- As in distress : noun hardship, adversity
- As in hardship : noun personal burden
- But it was a tough break for Frank—morganatic marriage and all that.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
- It's a tough break, kid, but the sooner you forget her the better.
- Extract from : « The Chameleon Man » by William P. McGivern
- And the tough break is the both of them lives on the same block.
- Extract from : « The Boy Grew Older » by Heywood Broun
- This would be a lucky night for the Jerries, and a tough break for the folks crouching in the darkened streets.
- Extract from : « A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. » by Rutherford G. Montgomery
- "That's the kind of tough break we get in our kind of job," Agent Carter said, and made a flip wave with his hand.
- Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Casablanca » by Robert Sydney Bowen
- "Well, that certainly is one tough break for a poor little girl," Brandon sympathized.
- Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
Synonyms for tough break
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- asperity
- austerity
- bad break
- bad luck
- blow
- bummer
- calamity
- can of worms
- case
- catastrophe
- crunch
- curse
- danger
- destitution
- devil's own luck
- difficulty
- disaster
- discomfort
- distress
- downer
- drag
- drudgery
- exigency
- fatigue
- grief
- grievance
- hard cheese
- hard knocks
- hard luck
- hard time
- hardship
- hazard
- Herculean task
- holy mess
- hot water
- ill luck
- indigence
- injury
- jam
- labor
- mischance
- misery
- misfortune
- need
- oppression
- peril
- persecution
- pickle
- pinch
- poverty
- privation
- rainy day
- raw deal
- reverse
- rigor
- rotten luck
- scrape
- setback
- sorrow
- straits
- suffering
- throe
- ticklish spot
- toil
- torment
- tough break
- tough luck
- tragedy
- travail
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unholy mess
- uphill battle
- vicissitude
- want
- worry
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