tough crowd

noun

An audience that is difficult to please.

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Meanings

nountough crowd (plural tough crowds)

plural tough crowds

  1. informalAn audience that is difficult to please.

    Plautus, Terence and the other Roman comic writers had to write for a tough crowd.

    2000, Andrew Horton, Laughing out loud: writing the comedy-centered screenplay, page 51

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 冷淡的觀眾 /冷淡的观众
  • 冷淡的觀眾 /冷淡的观众 (lěngdàn de guānzhòng)audience that is difficult to please
Finnish vaativa yleisö
  • vaativa yleisöaudience that is difficult to please
German hartes Publikum
  • hartes Publikumaudience that is difficult to please
Spanish graderío difícil, grada escolimosa
  • graderío difícilaudience that is difficult to please
  • grada escolimosaaudience that is difficult to please
  • audiencia malcontentadizaaudience that is difficult to please
  • público descontentadizoaudience that is difficult to please
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APA

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Chicago

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