go to the mat

Example Sentences

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Were there ever things that you had to really go to the mat to fight for or that actually didn't make it?

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2023

McBee: Can I go to the mat for someone else’s pick?

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

“I will go to the mat to get rid of this cap,” Pollet said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2023

The District’s Candy Kessel said the best pithy advice she ever received was from her boss during a performance evaluation many years ago: “Candy, you can’t go to the mat on everything.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

On that, before long, she and Natalie would have, in one of her own occasional lapses into slang, to go to the mat.

From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts