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

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

To live "a cat-and-dog life" is to lead such an existence of strife and snarl as one ordinarily sees in the aversion felt by these two animals for each other.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)

A further term of cat-and-dog life for Lucas and this lady—but it would have served to dispose of me, you fondly imagined.

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir