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face off

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face off 
1. . to begin a hockey game with two players facing one another. They faced off and the match was on.
2. to prepare for a confrontation. The opposing candidates faced off and the debate began. They faced off and I knew there was going to be a fight.
See also: face


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He pulled the face off one of them, literally pulled it off with those gnarly fingers of his and those tremendous muscles.
"Some day I'll beat the face off of him," was the way he often consoled himself for enduring the man's existence.
Get up, little chappie, and take your face off my boots.
 
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