OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 42958

mano a mano

Meanings (ES + gloss)
mano a mano
A head-on conflict or direct competition.
Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordon…
The public debate became a heated mano a mano between the two leading candidates.
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