when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war
- when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war
1677 N. LEE Rival Queens IV. 48 When Greeks joyn’d Greeks, then was the tug of War.
1804 W. IRVING Journals & Notebooks (1969) I. 69 Two upright Postillions..were disputing who was the greatest rogue... ‘When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war.’
1926 A. HUXLEY Two or Three Graces 175 When Greek meets Greek then comes, in this case, an exchange of anecdotes about the deposed sovereigns of eastern Europe—in a word, the tug of bores.
1979 M. A. SCREECH Rabelais iii. One is reminded of an adage Erasmus used..Magus cum mago: ‘magician meets magician’—Greek, as we say, meets Greek.
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