mano a manon.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈmanəʊ a ˈmanəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈmɑnoʊ ɑ ˈmɑnoʊ/

Forms: 1900s– mano-a-mano, 1900s– mano a mano.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mano a mano.

Etymology: < Spanish mano a mano on an equal footing (1615), at once, immediately (mid 13th cent.), a confrontation, especially in a bullfight (20th cent.), lit. ‘hand to hand’ < mano hand (see mano n.²) + a to + mano hand.

Chiefly U.S.

A. n.

Any confrontation, contest, or duel (literal and figurative); (Bullfighting) a corrida in which two matadors compete in turn against two or more bulls.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of > a hostile encounter

encounter1297

counterc1330

brusha1400

recountering1410

recountera1470

encountering1482

re-encounter1525

re-encountry1569

passage1608

congression?1611

confronta1626

traverse1640

clash1646

congress1646

conjunction1648

head-to-head1899

go-around1912

mano a mano1950

face-off1956

bitchfest1985

1950 T. Lea Brave Bulls viii. 97 A mano a mano, a hand to hand, between the two brothers. And only four bulls.

1966 Sports Illus. 5 Dec. 71/1 Phooey on collapsing zones and sagging mano a mano.

1977 C. McFadden Serial xxvii. 60/2 Harvey had had this mano a mano with a Langendorf bread truck.

1987 Random House Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) Mano a mano,..A corrida in which two matadors alternate in fighting two of three bulls each.

1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 147/2 Everyone in the jammed courtroom sucked in a little air as it became clear that a real courtroom mano a mano had begun.

1997 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. ii. 74/2 Father and son engage in an emotional mano a mano that traces the faultlines of recent Argentine history.

B. adj.

Of a contest or fight (literal and figurative): head-to-head, one-on-one.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adjective] > matched against each other

pitted1852

mano a mano1968

1968 L. Collins & D. Lapierre Or I'll dress you in Mourning i. 16 He had..helped to arrange the famous mano a mano fight of Antonio Ordónez and Luis Miguel González.

1973 T. H. White Making of President 1972 (1974) iv. 71 Ever since then [sc. 1952] the primaries have been the great mano-a-mano tournaments of election year.

1988 Washington Post 19 Apr. e4/4 If there were tougher saves.., none was more pleasing to the crowd than the mano-a-mano one versus Aaron Broten.

1993 Esquire July 66/1 As for mano-a-mano games of horseshoes and private tours of the family quarters [in the White House], such diversions are as likely as the Queen inviting the Fleet Street gossips in for a night of snooker.

1996 Daily Tel. 9 May 23/4 In 1959, he was back, in a series of mano a mano fights with Antonio Ordonez, an equally arrogant matador who was married to Dominguin's sister.

C. adv.

In direct competition or rivalry; head to head, face to face.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adverb] > manner of competition

head-to-head1851

tightly1883

mano a mano1973

1973 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 34/3 Sleuth is essentially a two-actor mystery-surprise film, and..Michael Caine got the job of going up against Olivier, mano á mano.

1978 Washington Post 10 Mar. d5/2 Want to know what it's like to go mano a mano with death?

1986 H. S. Thompson Generation of Swine (1988) 166 Not even his good friends in Washington are eager to send him to Reykjavik to deal mano-a-mano behind closed doors with the cruel and devious Gorbachev.

1997 Compl. Road & Track '98 Car Buyer's Guide 12/3 Japanese and European automakers..have been building factories in the United States..and competing mano-a-mano with Detroit's Big Three.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mano a mano
释义	mano a manon.adj.adv. Brit. /ˈmanəʊ a ˈmanəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɑnoʊ ɑ ˈmɑnoʊ/ Forms: 1900s– mano-a-mano, 1900s– mano a mano. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish mano a mano. Etymology: < Spanish mano a mano on an equal footing (1615), at once, immediately (mid 13th cent.), a confrontation, especially in a bullfight (20th cent.), lit. ‘hand to hand’ < mano hand (see mano n.²) + a to + mano hand. Chiefly U.S. A. n. Any confrontation, contest, or duel (literal and figurative); (Bullfighting) a corrida in which two matadors compete in turn against two or more bulls. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of > a hostile encounter encounter1297 counterc1330 brusha1400 recountering1410 recountera1470 encountering1482 re-encounter1525 re-encountry1569 passage1608 congression?1611 confronta1626 traverse1640 clash1646 congress1646 conjunction1648 head-to-head1899 go-around1912 mano a mano1950 face-off1956 bitchfest1985 1950 T. Lea Brave Bulls viii. 97 A mano a mano, a hand to hand, between the two brothers. And only four bulls. 1966 Sports Illus. 5 Dec. 71/1 Phooey on collapsing zones and sagging mano a mano. 1977 C. McFadden Serial xxvii. 60/2 Harvey had had this mano a mano with a Langendorf bread truck. 1987 Random House Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) Mano a mano,..A corrida in which two matadors alternate in fighting two of three bulls each. 1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 147/2 Everyone in the jammed courtroom sucked in a little air as it became clear that a real courtroom mano a mano had begun. 1997 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. ii. 74/2 Father and son engage in an emotional mano a mano that traces the faultlines of recent Argentine history. B. adj. Of a contest or fight (literal and figurative): head-to-head, one-on-one. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adjective] > matched against each other pitted1852 mano a mano1968 1968 L. Collins & D. Lapierre Or I'll dress you in Mourning i. 16 He had..helped to arrange the famous mano a mano fight of Antonio Ordónez and Luis Miguel González. 1973 T. H. White Making of President 1972 (1974) iv. 71 Ever since then [sc. 1952] the primaries have been the great mano-a-mano tournaments of election year. 1988 Washington Post 19 Apr. e4/4 If there were tougher saves.., none was more pleasing to the crowd than the mano-a-mano one versus Aaron Broten. 1993 Esquire July 66/1 As for mano-a-mano games of horseshoes and private tours of the family quarters [in the White House], such diversions are as likely as the Queen inviting the Fleet Street gossips in for a night of snooker. 1996 Daily Tel. 9 May 23/4 In 1959, he was back, in a series of mano a mano fights with Antonio Ordonez, an equally arrogant matador who was married to Dominguin's sister. C. adv. In direct competition or rivalry; head to head, face to face. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [adverb] > manner of competition head-to-head1851 tightly1883 mano a mano1973 1973 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 34/3 Sleuth is essentially a two-actor mystery-surprise film, and..Michael Caine got the job of going up against Olivier, mano á mano. 1978 Washington Post 10 Mar. d5/2 Want to know what it's like to go mano a mano with death? 1986 H. S. Thompson Generation of Swine (1988) 166 Not even his good friends in Washington are eager to send him to Reykjavik to deal mano-a-mano behind closed doors with the cruel and devious Gorbachev. 1997 Compl. Road & Track '98 Car Buyer's Guide 12/3 Japanese and European automakers..have been building factories in the United States..and competing mano-a-mano with Detroit's Big Three. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.adv.1950
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