Meaning of Tom-and-Jerryish | Babel Free

Examples

“The stories are amusing, well-written and Tom-and-Jerryish. Sir Charles, playing the cat, always loses, becoming more apoplectic each time.”

“It is very sweet and sentimental, but fortunately has enough Tom-and-Jerryish slapstick violence to keep your teeth from grinding.”

“It has nothing else going for it except a little slice of silly, Tom-and-Jerryish action.”

“Bochco and the show’s writer-producer, Nat Mauldin, provide plenty of stuff for the kiddies as well: Animation that is closer to the feature-film than TV standard; Tom-and-Jerryish chase scenes; slaphappy characters and pratfally situations.”

“Tom-and-Jerryish spats between Macron and Salvini over art, the euro and migrants feed into a clash for political domination of the Continent, argues Roger Boyes […] The confrontation between Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, may appear Tom-and-Jerryish but it is Europe’s argument made flesh, a gladiatorial struggle between global elites and insurgent politicians for the Continent’s future.”

“From arguments around the dinner table and a fiasco with bunk beds to nautical misadventures and plenty of Tom-and-Jerryish physical violence, this mines the comedy of immature men acting Like children for all it’s worth.”

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