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Eyeball to eyeball.
If you are eyeball to eyeball with an enemy or rival, you confront or face them down them directly.
Dictionary
to eyeball
verb
To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
synonyms
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Lennon called it: "Writing eyeball to eyeball".
When he sang, he engaged the crowd eyeball to eyeball.
Inevitably he soon came eyeball to eyeball with Henry.
East India Youth totally wants you to eyeball him.
Kennedy was certainly bracing for an "eyeball to eyeball" moment, but it never happened.
"Half a million men are eyeball to eyeball," says Mohan Guruswamy, a China expert in Delhi.
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Do your own eyeball-to-eyeball research.
We moved from having congenial conversations to eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations.
"Every time they look across their property line, they see eyeball-to-eyeball," Mr. Allan said.
As another global downturn looms, the status of eyeball-to-eyeball negotiation can only rise.
The scene was set for a series of eyeball-to-eyeball meetings at the Treasury in early October.
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