English Dictionary

drop the gloves

verb

(Canada and US, ice hockey, idiomatic) To fight. / (Canada and US, idiomatic, by extension) To remove a prior impediment to action; to prepare for or engage in a dispute.

He dropped the gloves and started fighting.

意味（1）

(Canada and US, ice hockey, idiomatic) 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.

意味（2）

(Canada and US, idiomatic, by extension) 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 Sullivan's advice.