rough and tumble
混战,粗暴的行为,粗犷的人,粗野的人
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Definitions
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- : characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- : given to such action.
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- : rough and unrestrained competition, fighting, struggling, etc.
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As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.
He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.