cat and dog life

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cat and dog life (plural cat and dog lives)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) An unhappy married life marked by arguments and disagreements.
    • 1957 October, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 725:
      The Bolton line thus became part of the Lancashire & Yorkshire on July 23, 1847, and the E.L.R. and L.Y.R. thereupon settled down to a cat and dog life which was to last about ten years.

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