fur-flying

短语

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Vicious.

    习语 非正式

    2006: 'Anticlimactic as it may have been, the news last week that Meredith Vieira would replace Katie Couric on the “Today” show marked the dénouement of a fur-flying, nail-biting, years-long game of musical chairs among television’s leading ladies.' — The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.

词源

Since a particularly vicious fight between cats or other animals sends fur flying.

来源：wiktionary