Descriptions & Equivalents
- ate nails for breakfast
- backbone
- brassy
- cockroach-like durability
- cowboy up
- crawled back up from hell
- doesn't hurt
- fierce
- gamely shrugged off
- grit in his eye
- gritted his teeth
- groaned through the pain
- grow a pair
- had his game face on
- hard-boiled
- hardliner
- hardness
- hard-nosed
- hardscrabble
- man up
- mettle
- pluck
- refused to die
- scrapper
- spelled it out in bullets
- spunk
- steel in his soul
- stiff upper lip
- strapped it on
- tenacious
- tenacity
- thick skin
- tough as nails
- unrepentant
- went the distance
- will power
- wouldn't back down
- you and what army are going to take me down?