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dog-eat-dog

/dawg-eet-dawg, dog-eet-dog/US // ˈdɔg itˈdɔg, ˈdɒg itˈdɒg //

狗咬狗,狗吃狗,狗吃屎

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : complete egotism; action based on utter cynicism: The only rule of the marketplace was dog-eat-dog.

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Examples

  • Indeed, although he works here in the old town, he lives in the new part of the city where he walks his dog in the morning.

  • Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.

  • Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.

  • Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.

  • Tribole tells her patients not to change what they eat but how.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.

  • You see Squinty, like most little pigs, thought more of something to eat than of anything else.

  • Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

  • The dog stood with hanging head and tail, as if ashamed he had let so many of his enemies get away unharmed.