help get me started please

[Gunjams]

Really lost today...
Running free, bent and rough brings good luck (3,2,3,5)
and
Fierce competition among door-to-door salesmen (4-4,6)
Any help greatly appreciated

[boxtops]

1. Rub of the Green (to bring luck) - anagram of free bent rough

[bibblebub]

1 rub of the green http://anagram-solver.net/free+bent+rough

[bellabee]

rub of the green

[albaqwerty]

Hard-sell tactics

[factor-fiction]

Hard sell seems okay but tactics is 7

[Gunjams]

Thanks, I now have a 'b' as the starting letter for the 6 letter word
Fierce competition among door-to-door salesmen (4-4,6)

[Zvonok]

ding-dong battle (???) for the second one

[Zvonok]

ding-dong battle (??/) for the second one

[Zvonok]

ding-dong battle

[albaqwerty]

something battle ?

Factor is better than this than I :)

[mike11111]

I like ding-dong (doorbell)

[Gunjams]

Thank you all :)