Usually means: Simultaneous attack and defense fencing.
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  1. cut and thrust: Merriam-Webster
  2. cut and thrust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cut and thrust: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cut-and-thrust: Vocabulary.com
  5. cut-and-thrust: Wordnik
  6. cut and thrust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cut-and-thrust, cut and thrust: Wiktionary
  8. cut-and-thrust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cut-and-thrust: Dictionary.com
  10. Cut-and-thrust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cut-and-thrust: Rhymezone
  12. cut-and-thrust: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cut-and-thrust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cut-and-thrust, cut and thrust: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) The use of vehement arguments.

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knife fight, snickersnee, cut-and-thrust, pitched battle, war of words, home thrust, brunt, onslaught, thrust, bate, more...

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knife fight, snickersnee, cut-and-thrust, pitched battle, war of words, home thrust, brunt, onslaught, thrust, bate, more...



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