equipped to the nines

equipment

battlefield

to equip

opposite side, across the street

to face / to go towards

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

the number of overlaps; fold, layer