"Thrust and parry" nghĩa là gì?

"Thrust and parry" = đâm và đỡ -> nghĩa là khẩu chiến, tranh đấu quyết liệt.

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The thrust and parry of the electoral battle ended yesterday in a devastating loss of the saffron brigade (nhóm người, lữ đoàn) which had sought to woo voters by playing the “Hindutva” card as an antidote to TMC’s “minority vote-bank politics”.

The MPs, who decorated this ornate august Assembly a long time ago, did thrust and parry with well-articulated arguments to prove their points, and time was when, the people were excited to see their performances in Parliament. On the contrary, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the people tend to despise the increasing instances of un-parliamentary behaviour of the contemporary set of politicians in general and often pour scorn on Parliament as an “extravagant talk shop”.

Grant, of course, does not look entirely unlike a Greek statue (perhaps better yet, he looks just like Cary Grant). Still, the real moment of connection between Anna and his character, an economist called Philip Adams, is exactly as she’d hoped: they thrust and parry conversationally until both are spent. Later that night, she watches him give an extremely boring speech about investments with such interest that we know the two will end up engaged, even if it takes them 90 minutes of hijinks and bickering to arrive at their destination.

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