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Definition of Tug-of-war
1. Noun. Any hard struggle between equally matched groups.
2. Noun. A contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses.
Definition of Tug-of-war
1. Noun. alternative spelling of tug of war ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tug-of-war
Literary usage of Tug-of-war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"When Greek joint Greek, then it the tug of war. When two men or armies of undoubted
courage tight, the contest will be very severe. ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1899)
"CHAPTER XXVI CONTAINS A TUG OF WAR WHO was the first to spread the report that
Philip was a prodigal, and had ruined his poor confiding father? ..."
3. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"I was also aware that this occupied little country was caught in the middle of
a tug of war between the democratic West and the Communist East. ..."
4. The Story of South Africa: An Account of the Historical Transformation of by John Clark Ridpath, Edward Sylvester Ellis (1899)
"... CHAPTER XXVII THB TUG OF WAR The student of history will note many striking
parallels (some of which have been referred to in another place) between the ..."
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