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Tug-of-war   /təg-əv-wɔr/   Listen
Tug-of-war

noun
1.
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.





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"Tug-of-war" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the control of the trusts. His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. In a way the battle resembles a tug-of-war in which each of the two leading candidates is trying to pull the nation over to his favorite issue. On the side you can see the Prohibitionists endeavoring to make the country see drink as a central problem; the emerging socialists insisting ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann


Words linked to "Tug-of-war" :   athletic competition, athletics, conflict, struggle, battle, athletic contest


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