the tough guys are all doing it

1) the precursor to misery, toil and troubling endema on stock markets globally. to insight this remark is conjure econo-hell, stagflation and the livin' end on the world as we at that knew/know it.

it's a tough phrase but someone's gotta utter it.

woe betide the one who does, as it marks the makings of history in progress, a history for which while you alone weren't responsible, you know you alone can be called to account, but won't be and this is just something you'll have to cope you bastard with.

2) like anything really.

the tough guys: Sell! Sell! Seal! SELL! SELL!
you: *meekly* err... sell? the tough guys are all doing it

Telephone Tough Guy

Someone who acts tough or hardcore through a telephone or computer but lacks the courage to act accordingly in person. Telephone Tough Guy

Todd is a coward in person but acts like he is Mike Tyson over the telephone/computer, he is a real telephone tough guy.

The tough good guy

A guy who seems intimating and set to be a jerk. but is actually a good guy

Example 1: Beck Oliver from victorious seems like he is supposed to be a jerk but he really is the Tough good guy.

Example 2: Diego from Ice Age seems like bad guy but he’s the Tough Good Guy