cut and thrust
Example Sentences
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Elected in March, the 61-year-old former prosecutor-general only formally entered the cut and thrust of Korean politics when he declared his run for the presidency last June.
From Reuters • May 9, 2022
The council's standards' committee said it needed to tackle a "low tolerance to the cut and thrust of debate".
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2021
The cut and thrust of parliamentary debate is notorious for bringing out the boor even in normally mild-mannered members of Parliament.
From Washington Post • May 30, 2019
After witnessing the procedural cut and thrust, with little apparent forward movement, Powell declared herself as bewildered as when she first arrived in Guantánamo over the weekend, looking for answers about her son’s death.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2019
He was a clean-shaven fellow, and very sturdy and quick, and a good hand at cut and thrust and the quarter-staff, as I had seen for myself at Hare Street on the summer evenings.
From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh
