Dog fight
Is it natural to use dog fight when talking about a basketball game. It’s going to get really dirty and physical.
This basketball game is turning into a real dogfight.
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Interesting. It is only in the twentieth century that "dogfight" (note the spelling) became current in the figurative sense. The transition seems to have been brought about by its application to aerial combat during WWI.
- Interesting.
- It is only in the twentieth century that "dogfight" (note the spelling) became current in the figurative sense.
- The transition seems to have been brought about by its application to aerial combat during WWI.
- Nowadays you can call any ferocious struggle a dogfight.
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Interesting. It is only in the twentieth century that "dogfight" (note the spelling) became current in the figurative sense. The transition seems to have been brought about by its application to aerial combat during WWI. Nowadays you can call any ferocious struggle a dogfight.
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