slanging match
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"I bit my tongue. There was no need to get into a slanging match... but obviously it cut deep and I remember it."
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
“He has rightly avoided getting into a slanging match against Harry and Meghan,” said Vernon Bogdanor, a professor of government at King’s College London, who has written about the constitutional role of the monarchy.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2023
But this year that descended into a slanging match between China and its critics.
From Economist • Aug. 14, 2014
When soldiers came to take her, she kept them engaged in a slanging match while one of her comrades slipped away to burn incriminating letters.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2014
She went direct for that coalheaver, and thereupon ensued a slanging match the memory of which sends a trill of admiration through me even to this day.
From John Ingerfield and Other Stories by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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