Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> sez: >>> Thanks, Sam. But nowadays it's more often used sarcastically as an interjection than as a simple synonym for "hard luck." (In the '50s even that had been mostly supplanted by the sarcastic use of "tough!" all by itself.) <<< Also "tough sh*t", at least in the 60s. -- Mark A. Mandel