"Tom-and-Jerryish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981 May 3, Newgate Callendar [pseudonym; Harold Charles Schonberg], “Crime”, in The New York Times, page 39",
          "text": "The stories are amusing, well-written and Tom-and-Jerryish. Sir Charles, playing the cat, always loses, becoming more apoplectic each time.",
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          "ref": "1982 November 25, Kirk Honeycutt, “Heidi’s Song”, in North County Magazine (Times-Advocate), page 15",
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          "ref": "1991 May 17, Rene Carlos, “Not enough effects in ‘FX 2’”, in Chicago Tribune, 144th year, number 137, section 7, page K",
          "text": "It has nothing else going for it except a little slice of silly, Tom-and-Jerryish action.",
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          "ref": "1992 January 28, Ed Siegel, “Move over, Mickey”, in The Boston Globe, volume 241, number 28, pages 25 and 28",
          "text": "Bochco and the show’s writer-producer, Nat Mauldin, provide plenty of stuff for the kiddies as well: Animation that is closer to the feature-film than TV standard; Tom-and-Jerryish chase scenes; slaphappy characters and pratfally situations.",
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          "ref": "2019 January 19, Roger Boyes, “The prig versus the populist is a battle for Europe’s soul”, in The Times, page 34",
          "text": "Tom-and-Jerryish spats between Macron and Salvini over art, the euro and migrants feed into a clash for political domination of the Continent, argues Roger Boyes […] The confrontation between Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, may appear Tom-and-Jerryish but it is Europe’s argument made flesh, a gladiatorial struggle between global elites and insurgent politicians for the Continent’s future.",
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          "ref": "2019 April 17, Laurence Phelan, “Film Choice”, in i, number 2,619, page 37",
          "text": "From arguments around the dinner table and a fiasco with bunk beds to nautical misadventures and plenty of Tom-and-Jerryish physical violence, this mines the comedy of immature men acting Like children for all it’s worth.",
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          "ref": "1981 May 3, Newgate Callendar [pseudonym; Harold Charles Schonberg], “Crime”, in The New York Times, page 39",
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          "ref": "1982 November 25, Kirk Honeycutt, “Heidi’s Song”, in North County Magazine (Times-Advocate), page 15",
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          "ref": "1991 May 17, Rene Carlos, “Not enough effects in ‘FX 2’”, in Chicago Tribune, 144th year, number 137, section 7, page K",
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          "ref": "1992 January 28, Ed Siegel, “Move over, Mickey”, in The Boston Globe, volume 241, number 28, pages 25 and 28",
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