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cut-and-thrust


  • n  fighting with knives

  • In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face.
  • Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who loves the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate, poured scorn on the Tories, dubbed Heath as "this Sir Galahad" who, he claimed, had deliberately .
  • Barzel takes obvious delight in the cut-and-thrust of political battle; if his audiences are too friendly and attentive, he tends to lose some of his oratorical spark.
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  • Michael Portillo in guardian.co.uk
    Mr Portillo said: "I have been considering my future for some time and I have decided that it should lie outside the House of Commons. In a number of ways I have lost my enthusiasm for the cut-and-thrust of the chamber and my contribution to it has...

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