Arm-wrestle

Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law

I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further.

In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize.

The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today. Even if the playing fields for the superpowers' arm-wrestling matches are no longer Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, but instead Kabul, Tehran and Peshawar.