run the gauntlet

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run the gauntlet

to have to deal with a lot of people who are criticizing or attacking you. The minister had to run the gauntlet of anti-nuclear protesters when he arrived at the plant. (usually + of)

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By one speaker it was proposed that he be disembowelled, by another that he be made to run the gauntlet. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context After I had run the gauntlet of the begging children, and was just out of ear- shot of the group, I turned round to survey it from a distance. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context More results

References in classic literature

By one speaker it was proposed that he be disembowelled, by another that he be made to run the gauntlet.

Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

After I had run the gauntlet of the begging children, and was just out of ear- shot of the group, I turned round to survey it from a distance.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

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