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dog-eat-dog
adjective as in viciously competitive
Example Sentences
“JUCO is … a dog-eat-dog world. So I think that kind of heightened everything and the sense or urgency to learn it.”
“You’d be almost like brothers if it wasn’t for being on opposite sidelines. It’s the kind of guy you’d send a Christmas card to, but you don’t, because you’re too busy trying to scratch each other’s eyeballs out. Nature of the business. Dog-eat-dog.”
Some may retire from Congress, others will run in newly-created districts against a favored Republican and others will be forced to face a fellow Democratic incumbent in dog-eat-dog primaries in redrawn districts.
It's worth noting that, even before the invention of streaming, the world of US chat shows was always a competitive, dog-eat-dog world.
In one episode, his response is, “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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