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- come to grips with
- go through fire and water
- take the bull by the horns
run the gauntlet 的定义
- Be exposed to danger, criticism, or other adversity, as in After he was misquoted in the interview, he knew he would have to run the gauntlet of his colleagues' anger. This term, dating from the first half of the 1600s, comes from the word gantlope, which itself comes from the Swedish word gatlopp, for “lane-course.” It referred to a form of military punishment where a man ran between two rows of soldiers who struck him with sticks or knotted ropes. Almost as soon as gantlope appeared, it was replaced by gauntlet. The word was being used figuratively for other kinds of punishment by 1661, when Joseph Glanvill wrote, “To print, is to run the gantlet, and to expose oneself to the tongues strapado”.
run the gauntlet 近义词
go through an ordeal
run the gauntlet 的近义词 13 个
- be a target
- be a whipping boy
- come to grips with
- court disaster
- face criticism
- face one's punishment
- go in harm's way
- go through fire and water
- march up to the cannon's mouth
- meet head-on
- take one's life in one's hands
- take potshots
- take the bull by the horns
更多run the gauntlet例句
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- Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
- Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
- Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
- Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
- But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
- The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.