knock-down-and-drag-out
- a variation of knock-down-drag-out.
Example Sentences
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If you're going into this political knock-down-and-drag-out, you ought to have the dope.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis
And he might—he might have done it—for he was the most wishy-washy chap that ever cocked his eye at a woman; he might, I say, if me an' him hadn't had a regular knock-down-and-drag-out row.
From Dixie Hart by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
And in a genuine old-fashioned knock-down-and-drag-out rough-and-tumble your woodsman is about the toughest customer to handle you will be likely to meet.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
You must understand the Golden Bough, and to understand her you must understand the knock-down-and-drag-out system in vogue on board a good many American ships of that day, and later.
From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman
It had grown because of their favor and by means of the rankest exhibitions of knock-down-and-drag-out methods of consolidation of all competitors but—Westinghouse.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William
