go to the mat

Go to the mat for these guys because you know what?

Jim went to the mat to meet his beginning class.

"It would have been much better for us to go to the mat."

Are you going to the mat to fight for it?

But what it would be worth as an issue to go to the mat with on election day, is exactly nothing at all.

"The company always went to the mat for its journalists."

It was her theology we went to the mat about finally.

It was very nice that Michael had this whole group of people willing to go to the mat for him, but she didn't.

There was a time when I would have gone to the mat with the toughest of them.

"I tell parents it's worth going to the mat not to do this if they feel strongly against it."

Democrats appear willing to go to the mat to prevent that.

Do I go to the mat with him to clinch the deal?

Before we go to the mat we have to get information.

It's time for somebody else to go to the mat."

But Liz had gone to the mat for him, and she deserved the whole truth.

I'll go to the mat on this one, even if I have to call the governor."

Who was the citizen with whom I went to the mat?"

Who's enough of a Grinch to really want to go to the mat over this one?

If we go to the mat on it, he'll get the decision."

A former wrestling coach, he is showing a willingness to go to the mat.

"All right, if he wants to fight, I'm perfectly willing to go to the mat with him.

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Also, whilst never much of a hand to go to the mat with a book, I'm a good listener.

"This does not appear to be the type of case where you want to go to the mat over this issue," he said.

That she would go to the mat with him on the subject if that was his pleasure.