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tug-of-war
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tug-of-war
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The children are trapped in an emotional tug-of-war between their parents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Often, several make contact with the wall and then there is a tug-of-war between them.
▪ Opposing forces were in precarious balance, and resolving their tug-of-war was his prime concern.
▪ Rather, what seems to be happening is a tug-of-war over where exactly the bipartisan centre stands.
▪ She heard the break before she actually saw the child who had fallen at the winning end of a tug-of-war rope.
▪ They have intricate games of tug-of-war with anything long enough to pull.
▪ Two people pulling in opposite directions have a tug-of-war.
Wiktionary
tug-of-war

n. (alternative spelling of tug of war English)

WordNet
tug-of-war

  1. n. any hard struggle between equally matched groups

  2. a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses

Usage examples of "tug-of-war".

As if watching Luciano playing tug-of-war with the bottles of Barolo wasnt humiliating enough, now to be confronted with her own utter lack of skills in the domestic hygiene department was mortifying beyond belief.

The Klingon was engaged in a losing tug-of-war with the hamster, which had decided it wanted to add a lock of Worl% hair to the booty already swelling its cheek pouches.

The toughened grass rope stretched and squeaked taut as creatures at both ends bent their backs into the tug-of-war.

Seven strong men surged backward against the cable with hissing grunts of effort, driving against their heels as if this were a tug-of-war game at a village fair.