hammer-and-tongs

In the ongoing hammer-and-tongs battle between Nike and Adidas known as Shoe Wars, each company zeroed in on the youth market by sponsoring its own basketball tournament.

The Big Boys Of Summer 2008

Kerrey looked at the draft on the plane to Atlanta, then furiously turned out his own hammer-and-tongs version.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

Kerrey looked at the draft on the plane to Atlanta, then furiously turned out his own hammer-and-tongs version.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

Kerrey looked at the draft on the plane to Atlanta, then furiously turned out his own hammer-and-tongs version.

No Excuses Robert Shrum 2007

The usual-suspects collection of pointy-headed folks and I include myself in that category are once again going at it hammer-and-tongs over another topic that will likely suffer from perpetual necromancy: the merits/superiority of the "text world" v...

Ce n'est pas un monde virtuel 2005

He and I were really going at this hammer-and-tongs, over the growing spam and virus crisis.

Boing Boing: August 4, 2002 - August 10, 2002 Archives 2002

As I walked in I saw, perched on the high stool in front of the type case, a little hoydenish figure with flying hair -- Myrtle Coombs, the hammer-and-tongs printer.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

But, hard as it was, the work did not tire me as much as the mere mechanical grind of the hammer-and-tongs work on _The Press_ had done.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

Such folk are apt to jib at hammer-and-tongs fighting, and of course we could not land troops to assist them, as it would have violated the sacred soil that cradled Islam and merely stiffened the bogus _jihad_ which the Turks had proclaimed against us, besides compromising the Sharif with his own tribesmen.

Pan-Islam

They had it "hammer-and-tongs" for a brief space of time.

Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold Charles Amory Beach