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2021-08-29 10:08
If the going gets tough phrase
If things start to be too difficult or troublesome to cope with.
Remember that if the going gets tough, I will always be here to offer you help.
My family members are all extremely supportive to me. If the going gets tough, they will lend me a helping hand.
This task might be difficult in the first few days, so if the going gets tough, you can ask me, and I will show you how to do it.
This phrase came from the proverb "when the going gets tough, the tough get going", which is ascribed to Joseph P. Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy. He may well have used it—J. H. Cutler said so in Honey Fitz, his biography of the Boston mayor, Joseph Kennedy’s father-in-law—but probably did not originate it. It clearly was one of the various ways in which the ambitious father spurred on his sons, three of whom became very successful in politics.
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