go mano a mano

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: to compete against each other

Tomorrow night the candidates (will) go mano a mano in the first of two debates.

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Corbin Burnes can go mano a mano with any pitcher in baseball. —Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go mano a mano in the Russo brothers’ globetrotting 2022 espionage thriller. —Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022

The two go mano a mano for the most part, offering a range of subs for different missions, numbers of passengers and seat layouts. —Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2022

The two will go mano a mano the day after Thanksgiving in the fifth playing of The Match, a 12-hole faceoff at The Wynn Golf Club on the Las Vegas Strip. —Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021

Director Adam Wingard sure does love seeing movie icons go mano a mano. —Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021

Then the campaign asked Blanchard to go mano a mano with Donald Trump Jr. on WLUC-TV in Marquette. —Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2020

So here’s an easy potato salad whose piquancy is assertive enough to go mano a mano with the rich taste of the ribeye, and yet filled with enough indulgent flavors of its own to deserve a place on the plate. —Beth Segal, cleveland, 29 June 2020

Rhymes for go mano a mano

• americano
• castellano
• cebuano
• mexicano
• chicano
• hispano
• serrano
• solano
• soprano
• llano