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  • Globalization, panting, has at last arrived; here we are in a state of doggy-dog globality.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Globalization, panting, has at last arrived; here we are in a state of doggy-dog globality.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Globalization, panting, has at last arrived; here we are in a state of doggy-dog globality.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Globalization, panting, has at last arrived; here we are in a state of doggy-dog globality.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • I don't mean just doggy-dog, I mean like you couldn' a got him off me with a bucket of cold water, you'd a had to blast him with a farhose.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • I don't mean just doggy-dog, I mean like you couldn' a got him off me with a bucket of cold water, you'd a had to blast him with a farhose.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • I don't mean just doggy-dog, I mean like you couldn' a got him off me with a bucket of cold water, you'd a had to blast him with a farhose.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • Mayhem will inevitably arise from empty stomachs as a doggy-dog situation demands survival of the fittest mentality.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • In this realm are several undisputed classics: cutting off your nose despite your face is quite popular, as is the gloomy reflection It's a doggy-dog world.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3 1993

  • Was another showing just how much the world has gone to the dogs when she wrote, "It's a doggy-dog world"?

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4 1986

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