- dog-eat-dog world
- world full of competition
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
dog-eat-dog world
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Dog eat dog — In a dog eat dog world, there is intense competition and rivalry, where everybody thinks only of himself or herself … Dictionary of English idioms
