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  1. tough callnoun

    A choice or judgment which is difficult to make, especially one involving only two alternatives.

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  1. Tough Call

    Tough Call – also known as Game Called Because of Rain, Bottom of the Sixth, or The Three Umpires – is a 1948 painting by American artist Norman Rockwell, painted for the April 23, 1949, cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. The original painting is in the collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It is considered the best known of Rockwell's baseball-themed works, and appears in at least ten Rockwell commentary books.The painting is set at a ballpark, where a group of three baseball umpires is looking skyward, as rain is starting to fall. Behind them is a scoreboard showing the game to be in the bottom of the 6th inning, with the Pittsburgh Pirates leading the Brooklyn Dodgers by a score of 1–0. Also shown is a Brooklyn coach or manager in conversation with his Pittsburgh counterpart.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tough call in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tough call in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of tough call in a Sentence

  1. Bertrand Grabowski:

    To have Western banks effectively financing directly aircraft to Iranian airlines is going to be a tough call. This isn’t going to happen in the next 18 months.

  2. Tim McGraw:

    I probably would have never moved to Nashville [ if it wasn't for my mom ], i called my mom and told her I was going to quit college and move to Nashville. It was a tough call because I was scared to death, because I knew how bad she wanted me to go to college and how much she wanted me to make a success of my life... and she said,' I'm surprised you haven't already.' When she told me that, it was a vote of confidence to sell everything I had and get on a greyhound bus and go to Nashville. You don't want to let your mom down.

  3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    This was a very difficult decision for our family, i knew it would hit them, that it would be a tough call, it’s not a joke. These are serious matters. My family wasn’t prepared to let me go….

  4. Andrew Hunter:

    He’s not a reed in the wind, he’s a problem solver, and he’s about getting the job done. And he’s absolutely willing to take the heat for a tough call.

  5. Justin Bartek:

    We go back and forth from trying to stay in the area or starting a new life in another town or out of state, it's really a tough call because we've been here for so long.


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