| 词汇 | dogfight |
| 词源 | dogfight. A term used by cowboys for a fistfight; many cow- boys, preferring to fight with weapons, thought dogfights were beneath them, reasoning that if they were intended to fight like dogs they would have been born with longer teeth and claws. |
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