dog-eat-dog

Example Sentences

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Conversely, U.S. businesses exhibiting "toxicity" - where employees use idioms as specific as "good ol' boys club" and "dog eat dog" - have vastly underperformed, Wu said.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2021

All of which is to say that today’s movie landscape is, as ever, a dog eat dog world.

From Washington Times • Feb. 19, 2020

And it's a choice, if you're operating in this system that we have, which in America is a very carnivorous one: it's very dog eat dog.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2019

Driving puts you in a constant position of asking, Are we in a place where there is a system of self-restraint, or are we in a place where it’s dog eat dog?

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2018

In this world of dog eat dog, it is rare to find a friend ... a really sincere friend ... or so I thought.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole