A: Who do you think will win the award?

    B: I don’t know, but one thing is certain. The competition for that award will be wild and woolly.

    Note: This idiom means “uncultured and without laws.” This expression is of American origin and came into being to describe the wild west of the country sometime after the Californian Gold Rush era of the 1850s. The U.S. publication “The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly Review and Church Register,” 1855, included a reference to the “wild and woolly-haired Negillo.” “Wild and Woolly” is also the title of a 1917 American silent Western comedy film which tells the story of one man’s personal odyssey from a sophisticated Easterner to a Western tough guy.