"like strange bulldogs" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "strange is used with the sense of unfamiliar, unacquainted.",
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          "ref": "1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:",
          "text": "When I think of those folks, living in one room and getting along like a couple of strange bulldogs, I feel like stringing with the man who says that we get our hell on this earth sometimes.",
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        {
          "ref": "1918, Holworthy Hall, The Man Nobody Knew:",
          "text": "\"Some disagreement,\" admitted Harmon, grinning. \"These up-State farmers and I love each other like a couple of strange bulldogs. Still—\"",
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          "ref": "1925, The First Yale Unit: A Story of Naval Aviation, 1916-1919:",
          "text": "These three got along like strange bulldogs, due to the fact that they were all captains and no privates when the three of them were together.",
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        "Wary and unfriendly; on the verge of a fight."
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        "(simile, dated, of two or more people) Wary and unfriendly; on the verge of a fight."
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          "ref": "1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:",
          "text": "When I think of those folks, living in one room and getting along like a couple of strange bulldogs, I feel like stringing with the man who says that we get our hell on this earth sometimes.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1918, Holworthy Hall, The Man Nobody Knew:",
          "text": "\"Some disagreement,\" admitted Harmon, grinning. \"These up-State farmers and I love each other like a couple of strange bulldogs. Still—\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1925, The First Yale Unit: A Story of Naval Aviation, 1916-1919:",
          "text": "These three got along like strange bulldogs, due to the fact that they were all captains and no privates when the three of them were together.",
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        "(simile, dated, of two or more people) Wary and unfriendly; on the verge of a fight."
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