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Running the gauntlet - Wikipedia Running the gauntlet Gauntlet in Russia, 1845 "Running the gauntlet" refers to taking part in a form of corporal punishment in which one or more individuals is forced to run between two rows of people who attack them with weapons Metaphorically, the term is also used to convey a public trial that one must overcome
Gauntlet - definition of gauntlet by The Free Dictionary The word gauntlet used in the idiom to throw down the gauntlet comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, "glove " (The idiom makes reference to the medieval custom of throwing down a glove in challenging an adversary to combat )
gauntlet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (archaic) Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment A simultaneous attack from two or more sides [John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors