take off the gloves

基本解释

The city officials will take off the gloves tomorrow when the tax amnesty period ends.
一旦納稅特赦時間終止時，市政官員明天將要採取行動了。
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When we make contradiction with others, we'll take off the gloves or turn hostility into friendship?
儅自己與別人發生矛盾時，我們是不依不饒呢，還是化乾戈爲玉帛呢？
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Encountered on the street elders, superiors, even though there is no need to take off their coats, but it must be easy to take off the hat, gloves off, and then salute.
在大街上遇到長輩、上司，盡琯沒有必要脫下大衣，但必須將容易脫掉的帽子、手套摘下，然後施禮。

It is even prompting some of them to take off the kid gloves with which they normally handle relations with the neighbourhood giant.
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We should give the Israeli government the green light to take the gloves off and break the backs of Arafat's terrorist cells.
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With the president apparently ready to take the gloves off, that battle will be rough—and maybe worse than that.
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