measure swords with someone
English edit
Verb edit
measure swords with someone (third-person singular simple present measures swords with someone, present participle measuring swords with someone, simple past and past participle measured swords with someone)
- To test someone's skill in swordplay
- (figurative, idiomatic) To match one's abilities against an antagonist's.
- Synonym: go up against
References edit
- “measure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.