How do you express a person who never makes excuses under any difficult situations?
Example:
When he faced difficult situations, he never backed off or never complained. He was such a _____ person./ He was a ____.
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How do you express a person who never makes excuses under any difficult situations?
Example:
When he faced difficult situations, he never backed off or never complained. He was such a _____ person./ He was a ____.
Best Answer
Idiomatically, a common term for this type of behavior is stand-up. Here is the entry for that adjective (in its relevant sense) in Barbara Kipfer & Robert Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, fourth edition (2007):
In the example sentences you give, the fill-in-the-blank terms would be as follows: