<span class="searchmatch">fought</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> simple past and past participle of fight <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">corner</span>...
simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">fought</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">corner</span>) (chiefly UK, idiomatic) To vigorously promote or defend <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> interests, views, etc. 1896, The Parliamentary...
the <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> every nook and <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> fight <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> happy <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> Hell <span class="searchmatch">Corner</span> hole-and-<span class="searchmatch">corner</span> hospital <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> hot <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> Hyde Park <span class="searchmatch">Corner</span> in a <span class="searchmatch">corner</span> in...
their backs to the wall, exasperated and despairing they had turned and <span class="searchmatch">fought</span> and died. 1910, Edith Wharton, “The Legend”, in Tales of Men and Ghosts:...
to fight cocks; to fight <span class="searchmatch">one’s</span> ship (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. He <span class="searchmatch">fought</span> for the Democrats in the last...
bulldog edition Wikipedia Uncertain. <span class="searchmatch">One</span> popular theory is that competition mainly drove the term; publishers "<span class="searchmatch">fought</span> like bulldogs" to "get out editions...
third-person singular of winnan Grendel wan hwile wið Hroþgar. ― Grendel long <span class="searchmatch">fought</span> against Hrothgar. (Beowulf ll. 151-2) Unknown. (This etymology is missing...
the deadly fight / At Sparta sing, that nigh / Kithairon’s heiglits was <span class="searchmatch">fought</span>, whereby / The Persian host of bent-bowed archers came / To ruin; […] 1927...
air base; especially, <span class="searchmatch">one</span> with unpaved runways. A place where competitive matches are carried out. A place where a battle is <span class="searchmatch">fought</span>; a battlefield. c. 1599...
there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we <span class="searchmatch">fought</span> another battle. The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act...