toe-to-toe
趾高气扬,趾高气昂,趾高气扬地对峙,趾高气扬地
Definitions
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- : being in direct confrontation or opposition.
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- : in a position or attitude of direct confrontation: slugging it out toe-to-toe.
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.
“James Woods refuses to toe the Hollyweird line,” Twitchy managing editor Lori Ziganto told The Daily Beast in an email.
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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.