drop the gloves

drop the gloves
a) To fight.

Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too.

b) To remove a prior impediment to action; to prepare for or engage in a dispute.

But Bradley, who dropped the gloves on Gore in a combative debate Wednesday night and called the vice president chronically dishonest, ignored Sullivans advice.


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