ROUGH AND TUMBLE


Meaning of ROUGH AND TUMBLE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life.

In the rough and tumble of my street there was less luxuriance.

It could be their first experience of rough and tumble play.

No constitution is ever safe above the rough and tumble of political life.

One of those cowardly specimens who observably flinched in the football tackle or too noticeably avoided the sporadic playground rough and tumble .

She's only small and she's not used to such rough and tumble .

This started a real rough and tumble , with people falling or being pushed to the ground amongst the debris.

This would have to be remembered in the rough and tumble of debate.

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