cat-and-dog
adjective
1
: resembling or having the character of the proverbial antagonism of dogs and cats:
a
: quarrelsome, inharmonious
they led a cat-and-dog life together—Ellen Glasgow
b
of a fight
: malicious and incessant
the cat-and-dog fight among the early wire companies—F. L. Mott
2
: being or consisting of cheap or questionable securities : highly speculative
cat-and-dog stocks are swinging through sensational gyrations—rising 100 percent in ten days, then collapsing—Sylvia F. Porter
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