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take the gloves off

to argue or compete without controlling your actions or feelings. If they're willing to take their gloves off, US peanut producers could compete with anyone in the world.

Usage notes: also used in the form with the gloves off: In this fearless essay, she goes at some respected poets with the gloves off.

See also: glove, take

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Now, I hope at last that we are going to take the gloves off. The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context More results

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