have at each other
Example Sentences
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As Alice and Edgar have at each other, with nasty recriminations that infect the initially conciliatory Kurt, they are clearly acting out a pattern so familiar it has become a conditioned reflex.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2019
In it, four characters gather in a big rambling house and have at each other.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018
Watch as cultural commentators Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley have at each other during the tumultuous 1968 election season in the documentary “Best of Enemies” airing on “Independent Lens.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2016
They also, while airborne, have at each other with fingernails, anvils and hammers like a spectral, female-impersonating Tom and Jerry.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2015
All of this high-sticking will be settled before the opening ceremonies, because the U.S. and Canada cannot wait that long to have at each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
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