A rough-and-tumble fight. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Can he make it in the rough-and-tumble fashion world?. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion's Freshman Face] Reference
Men may be sad to bid that rough-and-tumble style goodbye. From Wordnik.com. [Workingman chic gets a pink slip for spring 2011] Reference
If you can't, better learn to rough-and-tumble it in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Maybe it was more practical than rough-and-tumble individualism. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
So it goes in the rough-and-tumble new world of bankruptcy court. From Wordnik.com. [Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders] Reference
He counted the rough-and-tumble but little against the fact that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Could any of our young men nowadays stand such rough-and-tumble work?. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches] Reference
Percy realized that in a rough-and-tumble he would be no match for Jabe. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
To this rough-and-tumble economic scene he offers words of papal caution. From Wordnik.com. [The Market And The Pope] Reference
STEVEN SLATER "hits the chute" via rough-and-tumble animation on Asian TV. From Wordnik.com. [TOP VIDEOS OF THE WEEK: 'Scott Pilgrim,''Avengers'& Neil Gaiman] Reference
The rough-and-tumble takeover environment of the '80s contributed to the trend. From Wordnik.com. [Sequels For The Shelf] Reference
A rough-and-tumble frontier mentality has long shaped Israeli gender relations. From Wordnik.com. [Israel’s Glass Ceiling] Reference
Readiness for the rough-and-tumble of a market society is probably many years away. From Wordnik.com. [How To Help Gorbachev] Reference
Mr. Daly, for his part, defends his style as appropriate for a rough-and-tumble district. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic Alliance Frays] Reference
He was a terrible rough-and-tumble fighter, and many a tough citizen have I seen him do up. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
He would have enjoyed a rough-and-tumble fight with some impudent fellow vagabond of the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
Kasabian, a swaggering quartet from rough-and-tumble Leicester, are the obvious heirs to Oasis. From Wordnik.com. [The Brits Invade ... Again] Reference
More likely, he will follow the rough-and-tumble code of the schoolboy and play hard to the end. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning In America] Reference
Increasingly, it is becoming a criminal matter handled by rough-and-tumble local law enforcement. From Wordnik.com. [Aura Bogado: Arizona: The Good, the Fed and the Ugly] Reference
Once, in the middle of that rough-and-tumble which ended in my involuntary plunge into the water. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
After helping to save souls in his early teens, he played to the sinners at rough-and-tumble roadhouses. From Wordnik.com. [George Jones: A Wild Reputation, A Big Texas Sound] Reference
Some of the grumbling comes from disappointed rivals in the rough-and-tumble world of New York politics. From Wordnik.com. [ENTER THE 'MAYHEM MAGNET'] Reference
There is a manly, rough-and-tumble spirit in the ballad that boys like, and it is clean and wholesome, as well. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
I mean, they see an older Iraq that just doesn't exist anymore in the rough-and-tumble streets of Baghdad today. From Wordnik.com. [A Foreign Correspondent Reflects On Iraq War] Reference
The news went to Pittsburg, and they could hardly believe that he could get the worst of a rough-and-tumble fight. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
But exiled Tibetans already have a half century of experience in the rough-and-tumble of India's robust democracy. From Wordnik.com. [After The Dalai Lama] Reference
It is incessantly said that pitchers do not pitch inside as aggressively as they did in the rough-and-tumble past. From Wordnik.com. [Elias Knows Everything] Reference
I was on my guard, caught his lick on my arm, and then I lit into him, and we had it rough-and-tumble all around the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Such cocky behavior isn't in the flight manuals, but it's reminiscent of the creative rough-and-tumble that characterized U.S. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Fooling Around] Reference
NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton has this profile of a man who's trying to take charge of Nigeria's rough-and-tumble political scene. From Wordnik.com. [Nigeria's Acting President Leaps Into Action] Reference
After dinner came wrestling, boxing, and rough-and-tumble contests, in which defeat was not always taken with the best of grace. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The concept worked well in U. N.-administered Kosovo, but many Iraqis wonder whether it can succeed in rough-and-tumble Baghdad. From Wordnik.com. [FREE AND RECKLESS] Reference
But his success may depend as much on his ability to master the firm's rough-and-tumble internal polities as on his eye for good cars. From Wordnik.com. [At Chrysler's Wheel: A 'Car Guy'] Reference
He stayed in Pallastown until, however patched it looked, it was functioning as the center of the free if rough-and-tumble part of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
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