what does "get down & dirty" mean ?

vacant

anyone knows that plz answer me,thanks.

whoknows

i don't know~

where did you find it??

vacant

I remember I saw it twice , once on the channel ESPN SPORTS.

戴鲜花的小星星

这个词的解释视前后文而定

在运动上的解释，可以解释成，全心投入打一场。

vacant

thanks first

but could you show me more examples ?

liverbj

以下是引用vacant在2005-12-13 8:48:23的发言：

I remember I saw it twice , once on the channel ESPN SPORTS.

Which is another? haha

2 meanings:

1. Intently and fiercely competitive, often unscrupulously so: “Keeping his cool has never been easy for [him] in the playoffs . . . when opponents do their down-and-dirty best to bewitch, bother and bewilder him” (Phil Anastasia).
2. Bawdy; lewd. Very earthy, uninhibitedly sexual. For example, “L.A. club people rarely get down and dirty on a dance floor”

vacant

thanks a lot.

you all are kind-hearted!!

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down and dirty

1. Vicious, not governed by rules of decency, as in The candidates are getting down and dirty early in the campaign. [Slang; early 1980s]

2. Very earthy, uninhibitedly sexual. For example, "L.A. club people rarely get down and dirty on a dance floor" (The New Yorker, May 21, 1990). [Late 1980s]

liver411

Chairman Hu Jintao gets down and dirty
Coming to Zhong Nai Hai's sewer pipes this summer and Hu got down and dirty to nake clean the channel. It was an unusually large pipe and it took him 3 hours to make it thorough through.