Advertisement
Advertisement
tug-of-love
noun
- a conflict over custody of a child between divorced parents or between natural parents and foster or adoptive parents
Example Sentences
Southampton may face a struggle to hold on to their Uruguayan midfielder Gaston Ramirez, who is wanted by Inter, Juventus and Fiorentina, while Capital One Cup-hoisting Swansea skipper and centre-back Ashley Williams could find himself the subject of a tug-of-love involving Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
As John gets more into music, his home life becomes a tug-of-love between two needy mother figures, Mimi and Julia.
Elia Suleiman's understated, deadpan essay in observation is the most successful, in that it doesn't try to claim any special insight; while others – Benicio del Toro's American-tourist-in-trouble yarn, Julio Medem's impassioned threeway tug-of-love, Pablo Trapero's paean to local musicianship, featuring wildman film-maker Emir Kusturica – deal in more obvious material.
Young, black and beautiful, Basquiat was acclaimed from the moment he appeared in SoHo; he was soon Madonna's lover, Warhol's collaborator—their joint works are dreadful—and a tug-of-love prodigy between galleries.
Now he is two-and the point of contention in a tug-of-love between the mother and the family that raised him.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse