live a cat and dog life —(of two people) engage in constant quarreling (also: lead a cat and dog life):
- The couple had lived a cat-and-dog life almost since their honeymoon.
live a dog’s life —(also: lead a dog’s life) lead a wretched unpleasant existence:
- Warr, unemployed and homeless, was left to live a “dog’s life,” which ended in an unmarked pauper’s grave.