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down-and-dirty

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down-and-dirty 
1. (American informal) down-and-dirty behaviour is not pleasant or honest He ran a down-and-dirty political campaign.
2. (American informal) something that is down-and-dirty is shocking, often because it is connected with sex He likes his films down-and-dirty.


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There's considerable down-and-dirty fun to be had in Julia Rodriguez Elliott's staging of "Ubu Roi" for A Noise Within.
One is about training: "Our troops are in down-and-dirty fights in the streets of the Fallujahs of this country, and mostly the Army still trains for the Big Fight.
99, Au Courant To get her down-and-dirty look, Christina Aguilera is known to order 20 bottles at a time of this fake tan.
 
 
 
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