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one-on-one
[ wuhn-on-wuhn, -awn- ]
adjective
- consisting of or involving direct individual competition, confrontation, or communication; person-to-person:
a one-on-one discussion.
adverb
- in direct encounter:
I'd rather settle this with her one-on-one.
noun
- a meeting or confrontation between two persons.
one-on-one
adjective
- denoting a relationship or encounter in which someone is involved with only one other person
a one-on-one meeting
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of one-on-one1
Idioms and Phrases
- go one-on-one with, Sports. to play directly against (an opposing player).
More idioms and phrases containing one-on-one
A direct encounter between two persons, especially a conflict, as in The two department heads went one on one regarding shelf space . This slangy expression almost certainly comes from sports. It is commonly used to refer to a two-person basketball game, but is also applied to the interaction of two players on opposing teams in football, soccer, and similar team sports. [c. 1960]Example Sentences
First, the president's belief in the power of his personal, one-on-one diplomacy may have been misplaced.
Fourteen minutes later a diving Sheridan denied Thompson again, reaching out to take the ball off Thompson’s right foot deep in the box on a one-on-one situation.
They just had a white wall and basically said to Wales, 'we are backing our one-on-one defence with our physicality and you will not break us down'.
I had the opportunity to work with each one of them in one-on-one scenes.
Perhaps the most shocking and ruthless aspect of Unrivaled is the week-long one-on-one tournament embedded in the middle of the two-month season.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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