be made of sterner/tougher stuff

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: to be an emotionally and morally strong person with more determination than other people

Another woman would have broken down, but she is made of sterner stuff.

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But a team that had been on the outside looking in last Selection Sunday proved this season to be made of sterner stuff. —

Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2022

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