{"id":2187,"date":"2014-11-11T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:22:41","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-when-the-going-gets-tough-the-tough-get-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-when-the-going-gets-tough-the-tough-get-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words and Expressions \u2013 When the going gets tough, the tough get going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/venturegalleries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/chris_sharma_lg-640x423.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When the going gets tough, the tough get going.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you break it down and put it into context, &#8220;the going&#8221; means &#8220;the situation,&#8221; &#8220;gets tough&#8221; means &#8220;becomes difficult,&#8221; &#8220;the tough&#8221; means &#8220;people who are strong or enduring,&#8221; and &#8220;get going&#8221; means &#8220;become fully engaged.&#8221; Taken together, the meaning of the phrase is &#8220;When the situation becomes difficult, the strong will work harder to meet the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The origin of the phrase has been attributed both to Joseph P. Kennedy\u00a0(1888\u20131969),\u00a0father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK), and sometimes to Norwegian-born American football player and coach Knute Rockne\u00a0(1888\u20131931).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a very popular American song that uses this proverb below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (The Jewel of the Nile Version) (Officia...\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lIxUKbV0UEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the going gets tough, the tough get going.&#8221; What &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[676,680,677,541,182,681,191,307,1657,682,675,178,674,678,673,672,679],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-becomes-difficult","tag-challenge","tag-endure","tag-engage","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-inspirational","tag-interesting-expression","tag-interesting-phrase","tag-november-2014","tag-proverb","tag-situation","tag-strong","tag-the-tough-get-going","tag-tough","tag-when-the-going-gets-tough","tag-when-the-going-gets-tough-the-tough-get-going","tag-work-hard","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}