the gloves are off

意思

people are ready to fight or argue without holding back

準備毫無顧忌地爭鬥.

例句

1. 1Both candidates for head of year have stopped being polite: the gloves are off.
2. 2Once the neighbours started parking across our drive, the gloves were off.
3. 3My sister and I share a room, and since she borrowed my jeans without asking, the gloves are off.
4. 4The two coffee chains used to ignore each other, but since one started copying the other's menu, the gloves are off.
5. 5Is it true that the gloves are off between the two bakeries on the high street?

文法

完整的子句，常用在 now、once 或 when 之後。are 可變為 were；gloves 保持複數。也可說 take the gloves off。

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