How To Use Rough-and-tumble In A Sentence
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For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
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rough-and-tumble politics
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He's got heaps of photos proving he is a rough-and-tumble Kiwi bloke interested in hunting pigs, the bush, and swannies.
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The fractious Monday followed a rough-and-tumble weekend, as the two sparred over an Obama leaflet accusing Clinton of saying the North American Free Trade Agreement was a boon to the economy.
CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2008
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That admonishment -- directed at another reporter unfortunate enough to step on the long train of TV host Lisa Rinna -- offers a hint of the rough-and-tumble of Hollywood's most famous walkway.
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It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922.
Fortune’s Fool
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Nothing would have pleased the old man better than a rough-and-tumble campaign against the Satpuras, whom he, as an "unmixed" Bhil, despised; but he had a duty to all his nation as Jan Chinn's interpreter; and he devoutly believed that forty plagues would fall on his village if he tampered with that obligation.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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So what can we learn from this brief and sobering foray into the world of political consulting and rough-and-tumble politics?
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The actor's roguish, rough-and-tumble approach isn't well-suited to playing a heroic type, and his version of the Greek king lacks both presence and charisma.
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Their rough-and-tumble approach to play will equip them with the skills they'll need when they mature, so they can cope with a life in the big wide world and hunt successfully.
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Courtiers in samite and silk lined the carpet, turning to see this rough-and-tumble gladiator in their midst.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Sampling from journals, diaries and letters, Mr. Urban gives us a chance to share the pain -- in effect, to campaign with the generals, captains, lieutenants and teenage "pipsqueak" subalterns of the 23rd, and with the rough-and-tumble privates.
Seeing Red
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Had their rough-and-tumbles not been as he recalled, had their Blind Man's Buff ended differently?
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The notes of the tour, set down on his return to Chelsea and republished in 1882, have only the literary merit of the vigorous descriptive touches inseparable from the author's lightest writing; otherwise they are mere rough-and-tumble jottings, with no consecutive meaning, of a rapid hawk's-eye view of the four provinces.
Thomas Carlyle
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Our new governor likes to strike the pose of a perpetual political amateur -- as a microbrewer first, politico second or maybe third, who's still really getting his bearings in the cold, hard world of rough-and-tumble politics.
Sean Paige: Is Hickenlooper a Reliable Ally?
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And third, despite the common belief that scientific objectivity and science-based decisions will prevail over the rough-and-tumble world of confrontational politics and competing self-interests, the capacity of scientists to solve environmental issues fairly and expeditiously is usually overestimated.
Wednesday showdown brewing over Portland water (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Meanwhile, the publisher of the daily paper Minerva, Noah Webster -- of Webster's "speller" fame -- tired of the rough-and-tumble of journalism and withdrew from public life altogether.
Newspaper Wars
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Mirroring the South Side's rough-and-tumble image, the team consists mostly of scrappy, low-priced, no-name players.
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After the cattle were sold and the skin stripped, these rough-and-tumble plainsmen would cook the carcass over an open fire, and thus, it's said, the Argentine passion for grilled beef was born.
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Fake It So Real" captures a week in the life of this rough-and-tumble fraternity of small-town head crushers, allowing generous elbow room for sometimes ridiculous, sometimes heart-tugging swerves of eccentricity as individual struggles are subsumed by the communal glory of the big match.
Repertory Film: No-Holds-Barred Cinema
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Christmas is the friendly human announcement of this ghostly truth; its holly and boar's-head are but a rough-and-tumble emblazonment of that mystic gospel of -- The Three Words; the Gospel of the Unseen Love.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.
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The notes of the tour, set down on his return to Chelsea and republished in 1882, have only the literary merit of the vigorous descriptive touches inseparable from the author's lightest writing; otherwise they are mere rough-and-tumble jottings, with no consecutive meaning, of a rapid hawk's-eye view of the four provinces.
Thomas Carlyle
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Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.
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Poor Sarah took off her frock and washed it before me, without a sign of distress or embarrassment; and then we went off together and had a bit of a dance, -- a rough-and-tumble fore-and-after, -- at the nearest booth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866
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In the rough-and-tumble world of concert booking and promotion, no good deed goes unpunished.
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But while she is no softie and revels in a little rough-and-tumble now and again, her diminutive figure belies the true extent of her football potential.
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a rough-and-tumble fight
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As primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he was at the centre of many a religious stooshie over soft drugs and same-sex marriages and he seemed to revel in the rough-and-tumble.
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While it's often used as a substitute for the term "horseplay", meaning rough-and-tumble behavior, it's also used as a euphemism for play with sexual connotations, due in part to the
Crooks and Liars
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Berlin, may be as brave as a lion, but he cannot stand in a rough-and-tumble against a backveld hunter, though more than double his age.
Greenmantle
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They don't make 'em like this two-fisted rough-and-tumble war series anymore.
