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  • adjective Positioned facing another, with the toes touching
  • adjective idiomatic against, in opposition.

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  • adverb in close combat or at close quarters

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Examples

  • He had used his procedural mastery to humiliate them on the Senate floor, and they were afraid to go toe-to-toe with him.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had used his procedural mastery to humiliate them on the Senate floor, and they were afraid to go toe-to-toe with him.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had used his procedural mastery to humiliate them on the Senate floor, and they were afraid to go toe-to-toe with him.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I specifically remember watching him go toe-to-toe with a Salvadoran colonel, whose forces had just murdered a journalist.

    Phil Bronstein: Should Journalists Get Out of the News? Phil Bronstein 2011

  • When the Nittany Lions could knock down those open shots, they were capable of going toe-to-toe with the best teams in the conference.

    Big Ten Conference 2010

  • Could Thurman go toe-to-toe with Blackbeard and win?

    Stuff We Did This Weekend 2010

  • Though she's gone toe-to-toe with Storybrooke's mayor Regina, who adopted Henry Jared Gilmore, the son Emma gave up for adoption 10 years ago, she'll have to face the ultimate antagonist of the story: Regina's fairytale counterpart, The Evil Queen.

    Once Upon a Time Bosses on How Lost Influenced Their Fairytale World 2011

  • I specifically remember watching him go toe-to-toe with a Salvadoran colonel, whose forces had just murdered a journalist.

    Phil Bronstein: Should Journalists Get Out of the News? Phil Bronstein 2011

  • She has a beef with somebody else who you'll see early on in the season who she goes toe-to-toe with.

    Dexter Scoop: Will Dexter Find a New Love This Season? 2011

  • The night before he went toe-to-toe with Tiger Woods (FSY) in the final group in the final round of the 91st PGA Championship, unheralded Y.E. Yang (FSY) ventured that his odds of winning were 70-1, seeing as Woods had 70 PGA Tour victories and he had one.

    Yang able to tame Tiger on way to winning PGA Championship 2009

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