knock-down-drag-out
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adjective
marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
Also, knock-down, drag-out;, knock-down-and-drag-out.
Origin:
1820–30; adj. use of verb phrases knock down and drag out
1820–30; adj. use of verb phrases knock down and drag out
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