join battle

idiom

formal

: to begin fighting : to engage in battle

troops joining battle against a hated enemy

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And two more past winners, Nightmare Alley’s Cate Blanchett and Parallel Mothers’ Penélope Cruz, may yet arrive and invite their partisans to join battle. —