Word.ws English Dictionary

doing it tough

doing it tough is the present participle and gerund of do it tough.

Meaning of do it tough

Verb

do it tough (third-person singular simple present does it tough, present participle doing it tough, simple past did it tough, past participle done it tough)

  1. (Australia, idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To be in a desperate situation; to struggle.
    • Families doing it tough will receive more assistance from the government.

Questions about doing it tough

What is doing it tough the present participle and gerund of?
Doing it tough is the present participle and gerund of do it tough.

Words near doing it tough in the dictionary

  1. doing gooseberry
  2. doing ill
  3. doing in
  4. doing it
  5. doing it brown
  6. doing it tough
  7. doing it up brown
  8. doing justice
  9. doing lunch
  10. doing more harm than good
  11. doing nothing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doing it tough (page history and authors); do it tough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doing it tough.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doing_it_tough. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.