| 词汇 | when the going gets tough the tough get going |
| 词源 | When the going gets tough, the tough get going. A favorite saying of American president John F. Kennedy, who learned it at the knee of his tough-minded industrialist father Joseph P. Kennedy (1888–1969), who, in turn, may have coined the expression—or at least believed he had. |
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