"toe to toe" meaning in English

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        "Positioned facing another, with the toes touching."
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        "(literal) Positioned facing another, with the toes touching."
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          "text": "standing toe to toe",
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        "At the same level as someone else."
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        "(figurative, of skill etc.) At the same level as someone else."
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          "text": "go toe to toe with someone",
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          "text": "It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.",
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          "text": "Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.",
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          "text": "It’s a grim stalemate that has taken on the rhythms of a heavyweight title bout, with each side going toe to toe in one of the longest-running battles of the war.",
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        "Against, in direct opposition."
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