match wits

Generative AI won’t easily match wits with rival masters of deception.

The character is a light-fingered thief who badgers, bothers and bewilders Po as the two of them venture forth to match wits and martial arts skills with a shape-shifting lizard villainess impressively, menacingly, voiced by the redoubtable Viola Davis.

When he played in Chicago, Charles Leno Jr. got to match wits at practice with legendary defensive coach Vic Fangio, who is known for dreaming up new ways to put pressure on quarterbacks.

If Flounder really wants to match wits with Bluto, he should issue his own doctored video of Mr. Trump popping a hard-boiled egg into his mouth and chewing it carefully before punching his own cheeks and thereby spewing masticated egg all over his fellow diners at the table.

I kept expecting the whole novel to snap into something more elaborate, more complex — to have to match wits with June, to catch her in a lie within a lie, to experience some sort of revelation from an accumulation of evidence.