in the battle over bedtime the parents and their son are at a Mexican standoff
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This is going to be a Mexican standoff relationship.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022 Ahmet Şık, a former journalist and an opposition MP, likened the situation to a Mexican standoff, a confrontation in which no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory.—Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 24 May 2021
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