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go to the mat

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go to the mat (for somebody/something)
to support someone or something very strongly When he believes in a project, he's willing to go to the mat for it.
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Just a few years ago, AU had to go to the mat to defeat a school prayer amendment (misnamed the "Religious Freedom Amendment"), and we've seen a host of other issues grow up around that controversy.
But King and Arum are ready to go to the mat against all of them, and they promise they will do it together.
is no longer just a two-drug company, but that doesn't mean the biotechnology giant won't go to the mat to protect the market for Epogen, its first billion-dollar anemia-fighting blockbuster and still the core of its most profitable drug line.
 
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