0 a type of sport in which two teams show their strength by pulling against each other at the opposite ends of a rope, and each team tries to pull the other over a line on the ground
1 a competition in which two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope, each trying to pull the other team over a line between them, or fig. a fight between two people or groups
Entertaining guests is like a tug of war-having a family, keeping a house, and doing gham-khadi all at the same time.
At least when we have a national assembly, there will be no tug of war within that body.
I watched his prowess in the tug of war with great respect and considerable fear.
What difference is there in principle between kicking a hare and deliberately setting dogs on it to use it as a tug of war?
We believe that a permanent tug of war goes on.
I realise that finance will be needed, but at least we shall not have this tug of war, which has taken much time and energy.
It enables us all to survive the constant tug of war of life's problems.
The hare was caught by both dogs, one at the foreleg and one at the back leg, and there was a tug of war.
