dog-eat-dog
adjective
noun
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Origin of dog-eat-dog
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Example sentences from the Web for dog-eat-dog
The cannibalism is, in typical Sondheim fashion, a cheeky metaphor for the dog-eat-dog capitalism of the day.
His plays have typically been dog-eat-dog affairs; it makes sense that he views politics as trench warfare.
If we eventually lick the Kradens, one of the very reasons will be because we're a dog-eat-dog society.
Medal of Honor|Dallas McCord ReynoldsI cannot live by the dog-eat-dog code that seems to prevail wherever folk get jammed together in an unwieldy social mass.
North of Fifty-Three|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Cultural definitions for dog-eat-dog
Ruthlessly competitive: “You have to look out for your own interests; it's a dog-eat-dog world.”
Idioms and Phrases with dog-eat-dog
Ruthless acquisition or competition, as in With shrinking markets, it's dog eat dog for every company in this field. This contradicts a Latin proverb which maintains that dog does not eat dog, first recorded in English in 1543. Nevertheless, by 1732 it was put as “Dogs are hard drove when they eat dogs” (Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia).