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eyeball-to-eyeball

/ahy-bawl-tuh-ahy-bawl, -too-/US // ˈaɪˌbɔl təˈaɪˌbɔl, -tu- //

眼对眼,目对目,眼见为实,眼对眼的

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : close or direct and often hostile; face-to-face: an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation.

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Examples

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.

  • It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.

  • The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

  • Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.

  • To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.