toe-to-toe

See also: toe to toe

English

Alternative forms

• toe to toe

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Adjective

toe-to-toe (not comparable)

1. Positioned facing another, with the toes touching.
2. (idiomatic) Against, in direct opposition.
   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.

See also

• 舛 (chuǎn)