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cat-and-dog

[kat-n-dawg, -dog] / ˈkæt nˈdɔg, -ˈdɒg /


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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

Now they lead a cat-and-dog life, Stimulating in the harassed life of the King because of his fellow feeling for poor Ubum.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

The mutual affection of these two animals is unbounded, and yet we hear human disagreements compared to cat-and-dog life!

From Chatterbox Stories of Natural History by Anonymous

But of a sudden Jones and his wife have fallen out, and there is for awhile in Jones Hall a cat-and-dog life that may end—in one hardly dare to surmise what calamity.

From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony




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