"cut and thrust" meaning in English

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          "text": "He never got used to the cut and thrust of political debate.",
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          "ref": "2022 February 3, Heather Stewart, quoting Dominic Raab, “Boris Johnson’s policy chief quits over PM’s ‘scurrilous’ Savile remark”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Several cabinet ministers, including Nadine Dorries and Michael Gove, have since defended the remarks, however, with the justice secretary, Dominic Raab, calling it part of the “cut and thrust” of parliamentary debate.",
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          "ref": "2022 December 14, Philip Haigh, “Open access services on their way to South Wales”, in RAIL, number 972, page 54",
          "text": "This might all simply be the cut and thrust of business.",
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        "The use of vehement arguments."
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        "(idiomatic) The use of vehement arguments."
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          "ref": "2022 February 3, Heather Stewart, quoting Dominic Raab, “Boris Johnson’s policy chief quits over PM’s ‘scurrilous’ Savile remark”, in The Guardian",
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