eyeball to eyeball
eyeball to eyeball face to face with someone, especially in an aggressive way; the expression is particularly associated with the US politician Dean Rusk (1909–94) as Secretary of State on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 24 October 1962, ‘We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.’
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