go eyeball to eyeball with

As you slog through security lines this holiday weekend, wondering if you should join the ranks of the anonymously naked observed by an unseen TSA agent or go eyeball to eyeball with one who pats you down, and pats you up, and pats sideways and roundabout with a little probing here and there—and there!—just remember it could have been so much worse.

Says one of his top supporters: "If you go eyeball to eyeball with Wilder, you are going to blink first."

Now, in 1962, when only statesmen get to go eyeball to eyeball with the enemy, Bull finds himself out of meaningful work � orchestrating practice missions in the skies over Beaufort, S.C.