drop the gloves

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fight. Canada,US,idiomatic
    — Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too.
  2. To remove a prior impediment to action; to prepare for or engage in a dispute. Canada,US,broadly,idiomatic
    — But Bradley, who dropped the gloves on Gore in a combative debate Wednesday night and called the vice president chronically dishonest, ignored Sullivan's advice.

词形变化

drops the gloves present,singular,third-person dropping the gloves participle,present dropped the gloves participle,past dropped the gloves past

词源

From the practice of ice hockey players of removing their heavy gloves before striking blows in fistfights.
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