Mano-a-mano definition
Being or suggestive of a face-to-face encounter or contest.
A mano a mano duel between golf pros.
adjective
A face-to-face confrontation or competitive struggle.
A mano a mano between the presidential candidates.
noun
In direct competition.
An industry gearing up to go mano a mano with a rival.
adverb
In or into direct, personal confrontation.
adjective
A duel or other confrontation between two individuals.
adjective
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A bullfight in which two rival matadors take turns fighting several bulls each.
noun
The definition of mano a mano is a Spanish expression that is defined as hand to hand and is used to refer to a face-to-face confrontation between two people.
An example of mano a mano is when two people have a fist fight and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
An example of mano a mano is when two matadors take turns fighting bulls in the bullfight.
noun
A head-on conflict or direct competition; a duel.
The other candidates seemed to disappear as the public debate became a heated mano-a-mano between the two leading candidates.
noun
In close confrontation.
We sat tensely in the courtroom while the mano-a-mano struggle ensued between the two skilled lawyers.
adjective
The newcomer brashly engaged the veteran player mano-a-mano.
adverb
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Origin of mano-a-mano
- Spanish mano hand a to
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Spanish, literally hand to hand; on equal footing, neither of two participants having any distinct advantage.
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