cat-and-dog
Americanadjective
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continuously or unceasingly vicious and destructive.
cat-and-dog competition.
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Slang. (of a security) highly speculative and of questionable value.
Etymology
Origin of cat-and-dog
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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“If you want to see a cat-and-dog fight, just let someone make a move on us,” Mr. Spoor said that June.
From Washington Post
“So I’m going to buy shares for $20 while you’re selling them to these cat-and-dog investors for $15?”
From New York Times
Cat-and-dog, used attributively for quarrelsome.—ns.
From Project Gutenberg
War in the Argonne Forest was a cat-and-dog fight, and Germany was destined to play the cat's usual r�le, though she clawed her hardest.
From Project Gutenberg
One Spanish artist daubed a cat-and-dog fight into a 1575 oil of the Holy Family; for this informal touch, Philip ordered him to depict thereafter "neither cat nor dog nor any other indecorous figure, but only saints moving to devotion."
From Time Magazine Archive
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