cat-and-dog

Example Sentences

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There was no time to change into better clothes, so I pulled my big wool coat over my cat-and-dog pajamas, and we tiptoed out of the house, careful not to make too much sound.

From Literature

“If you want to see a cat-and-dog fight, just let someone make a move on us,” Mr. Spoor said that June.

From Washington Post

“So I’m going to buy shares for $20 while you’re selling them to these cat-and-dog investors for $15?”

From New York Times

Cat-and-dog, used attributively for quarrelsome.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

War in the Argonne Forest was a cat-and-dog fight, and Germany was destined to play the cat's usual r�le, though she clawed her hardest.

From Project Gutenberg