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run the gauntlet Definition


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gauntlet2
noun

Idiom: run the gauntlet
    To expose oneself to hostile treatment or criticism.
    historical
    To suffer the military punishment of having to scramble along between two rows of men while receiving hard blows from them.
Etymology: 17c: altered (under the influence of gauntlet1) from obsolete gantlope, from Swedish gatlopp passageway.



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