tough cookie

基本解释

She owns a seedy bar and she believes she is a tough cookie.
她拥有一个破旧的酒吧，她认为自己是个坚强的女人。
Without the boxes, said James T. Francis, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Air France case will be “a tough, tough cookie.”
James T. Francis，一位法国国家运输部安全委员会的成员说：“如果黑盒子无法找到，那么法航的这次坠机事将是一个十分棘手的问题。”
A tough cookie is not something you want to eat. It is a person who is difficult to deal with, and would do anything necessary to get what he or she wants.
（强硬的人）”并不是某种你想吃的东西，它的意思是指某个难以应付的人，他（她）会为了得到所想的东西而不折手段。

"If he wanted to win and be received as a tough cookie, he had to do what it took, " Washington says.
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Akerson, a tough cookie, is just what GM needed.
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He worked directly for Sylvan Coleman, chairman of the board and a very tough and demanding cookie.
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If you describe someone as a tough cookie, you mean that they are unemotional and are not easily hurt by what people say or do.