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Run the gauntlet

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To undergo a series of tests or challenges. idiomatic

    "Run the gauntlet north and south March on up to the cannon's mouth And say I can do any goddamn thing I want"

Etymology

From a corruption of run the gauntlope, run the gantelope. More at gantlope.

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