T
Idioms beginning with "T"
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[touch to the quick] {v. phr.}
To hurt someone's feelings very deeply; offend.
His remark about her lack of education touched her to the quick.
[touch up] {v.}
1. To paint over (small imperfections.)
I want to touch up that scratch on the fender.
The woodwork is done, but there are a few places he has to touch up.
2. To improve with small additions or changes.
* /He touched up the […]
[touchup] {n.}
1. A small repair; a small amount of paint.
Just a small touchup here and there and your novel may be publishable.
2. Redoing the color of one's hair.
My roots are showing; I need a touchup.
[tough act to follow] {n. phr.}
A speech, performance, or activity of such superior quality that the person next in line feels and thinks that it would be very difficult to match it in quality.
* /Sir Lawrence Olivier's performance of Hamlet was a […]
[tough cat] {n.}, {slang}
A man who is very individualistic and, as a result, highly successful with women.
Joe is a real tough cat, man.
[tough cookie] {n. phr.}
An extremely determined, hardheaded person, or someone with whom it is unusually difficult to deal.
Marjorie is a very pretty girl, but when it comes to business she sure is one tough cookie.
[tough it out] {v. phr.}
To live through and endure a trying situation.
The tourists got lost in the desert without a compass, and they had to tough it out for three days on a single bottle of water.
[tough luck] {n. phr.}
An informal way to say that one had that coming; it serves one right.
So your date didn't show up, eh? Tough luck, fellow.