down and dirty

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“We like to go for a good mix of wild and crazy buildings but also down-and-dirty bridges,” Wolf said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

But they did make it onto the stage, backed by a string quartet and tearing through the down-and-dirty riffs of their opening number, Smile.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022

Like Cassel, these are actors who could have worked wonders with even a sliver more emotional development, even if it would have been ultimately antithetical to this movie’s down-and-dirty aims.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2020

But Ms. Rockburne also got down-and-dirty with her materials, ripping, staining, scraping and nailing.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2018

Wood got involved in a down-and-dirty lawsuit with the Cooke capitalists.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce