cat-and-dog

adjective

1

: resembling or having the character of the proverbial antagonism of dogs and cats:

a

: quarrelsome, inharmonious

they led a cat-and-dog life together

—Ellen Glasgow

b

of a fight : malicious and incessant

the cat-and-dog fight among the early wire companies

—F. L. Mott

2

: being or consisting of cheap or questionable securities : highly speculative

cat-and-dog stocks are swinging through sensational gyrations—rising 100 percent in ten days, then collapsing

—Sylvia F. Porter

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