fight like cat and dog

fight like cat and dog

To constantly fight or argue. Those two fight like cat and dog, so please don't put them together on the project. By the time I called the police, those two were fighting like cat and dog. A: "Hear that noise? The upstairs neighbors love to fight like cat and dog." B: "Yikes. How do you drown out that racket?"

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fight like cat and dog

If two people fight like cat and dog, they frequently have violent arguments or fights with each other. My brother and I were very close in age and we used to fight like cat and dog. They had fought like cat and dog ever since he could remember, and he wondered how they'd managed to stay together.

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fight like cat and dog

(of two people) be continually arguing with one another.

1995 Edward Toman Dancing in Limbo Her desertion of him hadn't come as a total surprise…for the pair of them had been fighting like cat and dog for the best part of a year.

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fight like cat and ˈdog

(informal) argue fiercely very often: They fight like cat and dog, but they are really very fond of each other.

See also: and, cat, dog, fight, like

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