[Ads-l] "Catfight" goes unisex.

[Peter Reitan]

Coincidentally, last night I heard the expression "cat and dog fight" in Jean Harlow's 1933 film, Bombshell.

I was curious about whether "cat and dog fight" preceded "cat fight," and quickly found numerous examples on Chronicling America of non-sex specific "cat fights" as far back as the 1870s.

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