hang-tough

English

hang-tough (comparative more hang-tough, superlative most hang-tough)

Strong-willed or brave in the face of adversity; resilient.
- 1977 December 3, Jim Marko, “Rousing Musical Tells Story of Working Women”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 13:
  Settle on those strong and powerful women behind the over-worked coal miners. The picture of angry, hang-tough, working-class women proves that it has been "a long hard struggle for labor and women."