fight hammer and tongs
go at it hammer and tongs

'I'll give you where's the kid.she's your daughter, Roy Ryan, and you fought hammer and tongs to marry her mother.

After which the others went at it hammer and tongs.

"We've been going at it hammer and tongs ever since."

They were going at it hammer and tongs when I arrived."

Going at it hammer and tongs just reduced the whole thing to a farce.

We went at it hammer and tongs before we busted up.

They went at it hammer and tongs for several minutes until Redtooth emerged the victor.

Ignoring their wounds, they immediately clashed again, going at it hammer and tongs.

"I love watching Good and Evil going at it hammer and tongs."

Then he set his teeth in my shoulder and went at it hammer and tongs."

They had been together again for all of ten minutes, and already they were going at it hammer and tongs.

The two men dismounted and stood face-to-face, obviously going at it hammer and tongs.

"Of course," the admiral continued, "we still had a problem- how to defuse the situation before both sides went at it hammer and tongs.

I gave him as good as I got, and for ten minutes we went at it hammer and tongs.

But others more than compensated for their thoughtfulness, and the younger hotheads went at it hammer and tongs.

"Of course we spent the first week going at it hammer and tongs through the bars, but in the second week we started comparing notes.

He clipped me alongside the jaw and I plastered him over the eye, and after that we went at it hammer and tongs.

They started by calling each other vile names; then they went at it hammer and tongs, and they didn't fight like women.

The mob, now several hundred strong, and going at it hammer and tongs, took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence.

From behind the door across the hall came the sounds of a hideous row: Mr, and Mrs. Stephanopoulos were going at it hammer and tongs.

At the last minute, though, an image flashed through my mind of my outsized bodyguard and my dragon going at it hammer and tongs in the middle of the garden.

As she climbed down the steps, she could hear her father and Lady Javanne going at it hammer and tongs, with old Jeff and Liriel attempting to play peacemakers.

First I had to rearrange the shift schedule, since our third shift is now off on the Enterprise, then I spent twenty minutes going at it hammer and tongs with Matt."

To the north, Federals and rebels still went at it hammer and tongs; by the sound of things, the line hadn't moved there, which was all to the good as far as he was concerned.

But the American press, used to seeing horses flat out from the start and going at it hammer and tongs, were not in tune to the subtleties of Piggott's unleashing that burst, and the criticism started.

Mavia and Gaius Philippus' tart were going at it hammer and tongs, screeching and clawing and pulling hair, and it was easy to see the blonde was getting the better of the battle.