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“The only rule of the marketplace was dog-eat-dog. It’s a dog eat dog world out there. You have to do whatever you can to survive.”
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dog-eat-dog
adjective
UK /ˌdɒɡ.iːtˈdɒɡ/ US /ˌdɑː.ɡ.iːtˈdɑː.ɡ/
used to describe a situation in which people will do anything to be successful, even if what they do harms other people:
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.
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Sometimes it’s a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it’s the other way around.
— Lawrence Block
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain