How to pronounce “come to the scratch”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (prizefighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest.
• (figurative, colloquial) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

come to the fore, cut the crap, communicate, communique, commiserate, commissary, commensurate, came across, commissaries, compass rose