pistols at dawn en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) A duel.
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(broadly, uncountable) A disagreement strong enough to evoke a duel.
By rights, the making of To Wong Foo should have been fun for Patrick, Wesley, and John, but from the first it was pistols at dawn.
2009, Wendy Leigh, Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance, page 149: