blood sport

"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."

For decades, redistricting in Los Angeles has been something of a blood sport.

Especially online, where pop fan allegiance can be a blood sport, the matchup became one to watch.

He had always detested traveling except by train, but hated even more what he saw as a “blood sport” pitting performer against audience.

It’s also an example of the plot’s relative shallowness and scripts more concerned with verbal blood sport than teasing out its characters’ interiority.