hammer and tongs

Example Sentences

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“If you are a Republican conservative Trump supporter, then you might as well hang it up because they are going to come after you hammer and tongs,” he said.

From New York Times

He was the campus conservative back in the middle ’70s, when I was a student at the University of Southern California, and we went at it hammer and tongs a few times on the opinion pages of the Daily Trojan.

From Seattle Times

Over the years the two have gone at it like hammer and tongs and, before Saturday night, Eubank Jr bet £10,000 on an Alvarez knockout.

From BBC

But I know what’s in there and I will fight hammer and tongs to get that individual back.’”

From The Guardian

“Sen. Harris is a surprising choice considering just how hard she went after him — I mean, with hammer and tongs — over busing, issues of racial equality,” Colbert said on “The Late Show.”

From Los Angeles Times