tug-of-war
has definitions from the field of sport
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[ noun ] any hard struggle between equally matched groups
Used in print (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz_musicians , their aims , their problems - the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' - and seemed a promising vehicle , for the two men shared a common interest in jazz . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sport) a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses
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