Rough-and-tumble

The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

I loved leapfrog, walking on my hands, other ad hoc rough-and-tumble stuff when I was kid, but if I tried it now I think I'd put my back out.

An assistant about the theatre grappled him, and they were soon upon the floor engaged in a regular rough-and-tumble fight.

[To Sonny] When you look in a mirror, you see this rough-and-tumble old-school cowboy. Doesn't take orders, goes his own way, huh? A lone wolf. Well, I have news for you: Formula One is a team sport. It always was.

She found fame and success in the rough-and-tumble garment district.

"You played Rugger for Ireland, did you not? You don't mind a possible rough-and-tumble, do you?" Malone grinned over the receiver.

She liked ragging; but ragging — and nothing more — these rough-and-tumbles remained

As for rough-and-tumbles, the Quaker saw no hope of suppressing them. Few nights passed without such fights […]

This will appear a very tedious process to some of our rough-and-tumbles.

But, for all that, our British experience of electioneering "rough-and-tumbling'" has long blunted the edge of our moral anger.