cut and thrust
Example Sentences
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Advent served as a platform for Sir Jim to learn the cut and thrust of doing deals.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022
Elected in March, the 61-year-old former prosecutor-general only formally entered the cut and thrust of Korean politics when he declared his run for the presidency last June.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2022
The cut and thrust of parliamentary debate is notorious for bringing out the boor even in normally mild-mannered members of Parliament.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019
After witnessing the procedural cut and thrust, with little apparent forward movement, Powell declared herself as bewildered as when she first arrived in Guantánamo over the weekend, looking for answers about her son’s death.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2019
But whatever the advantages, it could hardly be reckoned amongst them, that there would be room for the hearty cut and thrust retorts which enlivened his ordinary talk.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
