plural of tough nut to crack

(Australia, colloquial, informal) Fair go, fair suck of the sauce bottle; used as an appeal for reasonableness.

(UK, colloquial, informal) An equitable opportunity to achieve something; a fair go.

plural of tougher nut to crack

Alternative form of tough nut to crack

Alternative form of tough nut to crack

plural of toughest nut to crack

(idiomatic) To wind up in an unexpected situation which is, inadvertently, invisible to or not handled by whatever process one had hoped to be subject to; to be overlooked.

(Canada, US, informal) An intensifier, used in the same contexts as crack of dawn, but more intense.

(Canada, US, vulgar) An intensifier, used in the same contexts as crack of dawn, but more intense.