make the fur fly
make the feathers fly

What a devil of a temper she was in this morning and how she made the fur fly!

If we go ahead with this affair, Loudon, you'll have to go yourself and make the fur fly.

So then I got a shovel, and then we picked and shoveled, turn about, and made the fur fly.

Then, I'll make the fur fly . . . And we'll get in some fishing.

And the gloves just would come off, so that they were ripping and tearing at each other, biting as well as making the fur fly, like furies, when the curtain went down.

During World War I, a duel of early aircraft was dubbed a dogfight, recalling an earlier expression, popularized in Davy Crockett's 1834 autobiography, about "making the fur fly."

I instructed my boys to be in the chapel as early as 10, before anybody was around, and be ready to man the pumps at the proper time, and make the fur fly.

I thought he'd kick out at em, make the feathers fly, but he never done that, either.

And then we plucked it together, sitting side by side on a rail of the fence, and making the feathers fly; and then I thanked him.

He held out his hand, and Sherman shook it, and the Golden Hillbilly sang out, "You sure have been making the feathers fly since the last time I saw you!