📚 Mano a mano, adverb. 🔉 /ˈmanəʊ a ˈmanəʊ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US • informal): With two parties confronting each other directly. ❗️ Examples: 1. They want to settle this mano a mano. 2. The time has come for Calgary's business community to compete with Toronto mano a mano. 3. Who could race mano a mano with The King or The Silver Fox? 4. Had he shrunk himself down to the size of a cell and injected himself into sick patients' bodies, to battle mano-a-mano with their disease-causing microbes? 5. Akiko and Hashio get to settle an old-time lovers' feud mano-a-mano. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic