toe-to-toe v.
(US) to fight.
Da Bomb Summer Supplement 7: Go toe-to-toe (v.) To fight. [Ibid.] 29: Toe-to-toe: To fight. | ||
🌐 Sam was going toe to toe with a burly sugarcane plantation worker who had sourly suggested bulldozing the entire swamp and paving it over. | Quo Custodiet Ipsos Custodes||
(con. 1972) Circle of Six 194: I was now going toe-to-toe with the job. |