tug of war
a struggle between two opposing factions
TRANSLATION
to tug = schleppen; zerren; ziehen tug-of-war = Tauziehen
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Man freed in crocodile tug-of-war
Villagers in Zimbabwe formed a human chain to rescue a man trapped in the jaws of a crocodile, reports say.
Letikuku Sidumbu was crossing a river when the crocodile seized his arm, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.
He escaped with injuries to his arm, leg, chest and stomach after local villagers linked hands to set him free.
(BBC News - 7th February 2006)
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Sony cracks down on PSP hacks
Sony is engaged in a TUG-OF-WAR with hackers who keep cracking its PlayStation Portable software to unlock the device and run their own applications on it.
The company is preparing another update to the PSP firmware to fix a recently disclosed bug that lets hackers downgrade the PSP system software and run their own, so-called homebrew code on the device, a Sony representative said Thursday.
(C-Net News - September 29, 2005)
Villagers in Zimbabwe formed a human chain to rescue a man trapped in the jaws of a crocodile, reports say.
Letikuku Sidumbu was crossing a river when the crocodile seized his arm, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.
He escaped with injuries to his arm, leg, chest and stomach after local villagers linked hands to set him free.
(BBC News - 7th February 2006)
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Sony cracks down on PSP hacks
Sony is engaged in a TUG-OF-WAR with hackers who keep cracking its PlayStation Portable software to unlock the device and run their own applications on it.
The company is preparing another update to the PSP firmware to fix a recently disclosed bug that lets hackers downgrade the PSP system software and run their own, so-called homebrew code on the device, a Sony representative said Thursday.
(C-Net News - September 29, 2005)
Did you
know?
tug of war
noun phrase
- A struggle for supremacy, as in :
There's a constant political tug of war between those who favor giving more power to the states and those who want a strong federal government.
Although there is an athletic contest also so named, in which participants holding either end of a rope try to pull each other across a dividing line, the present usage, first recorded in 1677, predates it by about two centuries.
The noun tug itself means "a strenuous contest between two sides," and war refers to fighting, either physical or figurative.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"At a time when all should all pull in the same direction, you still find sales and marketing departments engaging in a tug of war."
noun phrase
- A struggle for supremacy, as in :
There's a constant political tug of war between those who favor giving more power to the states and those who want a strong federal government.
Although there is an athletic contest also so named, in which participants holding either end of a rope try to pull each other across a dividing line, the present usage, first recorded in 1677, predates it by about two centuries.
The noun tug itself means "a strenuous contest between two sides," and war refers to fighting, either physical or figurative.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"At a time when all should all pull in the same direction, you still find sales and marketing departments engaging in a tug of war."
