knockdown drag-out fight

n. a prolonged and hard fight. Trying to get my proposal accepted was a knockdown drag-out fight.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jianhong	-	Chinese
Mick	MIK (English)	English, Dutch
Hermanus	-	Dutch, Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Nagendra	-	Hinduism, Indian, Kannada, Telugu
Shaindel	-	Yiddish
Macario	mah-KAH-ryo	Spanish