down and dirty

Example Sentences

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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

Still, for down-and-dirty “war medicine,” as he calls it, nothing matches what he went through in the first months of Covid-19 in New York City.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2020

“It can’t be skimmed in a quick, down-and-dirty fashion,” Vance emailed from the road.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2019

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