Root expressions:
“Tough cookie.”
“Hard egg.”
“Tough cookie.”
“Hard egg.”
Comments: |
| So, completely incidentally, I had a composition teacher who described Yanni's music as "boiled Kleenex." Matt Barber, 3/9/10 |
| Even though it won't be something I'll try in conversation, phrases like "boiled cookie" are a really nice by-product of the conflations dialogue. Maybe that one could go in the rejects section with things like "Carpe horns". William, 3/8/10 |
| I've also heard "hard boiled," so you might get something like "boiled cookie" out of this, but that's not likely to pop up in conversation. Matt Barber, 3/7/10 |
| nice, I hadn't heard "hard egg" before. I kind of like "hard cookie" too, since a hard cookie is often the opposite of a tough cookie... David Cecchetto, 3/6/10 |
| Possible variation: You're a tough egg to crumble. Alec Sutherland, 3/2/10 |
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