cat-and-dog
Example Sentences
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“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
One Spanish artist daubed a cat-and-dog fight into a 1575 oil of the Holy Family; for this informal touch, Philip ordered him to depict thereafter "neither cat nor dog nor any other indecorous figure, but only saints moving to devotion."
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
