man-to-man
- s forthright and honest
had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life - s being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player
- r directly
we must talk man-to-man
- In drama and accomplishment, their duel was the most stirring man-to-man competition of the Olympic Games.
- Midway in the second day of their man-to-man talks at Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, President Eisenhower turned to Nikita Khrushchev with a personal appeal.
- Seldom in the history of basketball had so much interest been generated in a man-to-man battle.