showdown English

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What does showdown mean?

showdown

— noun (= confrontation) a hostile disagreement face-to-face

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showdown English » English

confrontation

face-off

encounter

unfolding

scrimmage

match

game

confrontations

conflict

clash

battle royal

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Social behavior Conflict

Fight

• What words refer to a fight?
  affray altercation battle (n) bout combat conflict contest crisis duel (n) feud (n) gunfight row shootout showdown skirmish spat squabble strife struggle (n) tiff war (n)

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Movie subtitles

But it's finally come to a showdown. Who's gonna run Dodge: we or Surrett?

I think the time's come for a showdown, Doctor.

For a showdown with Steve Tolliver.

But I don't know. I guess if it come to a real showdown, I could stand a lot more from him myself.

So, in the final showdown, there was nothing left to do except fight.

He was the one that ducked out of a showdown not me.

I don't want a showdown.

AND HE WANTS A SHOWDOWN. THEN YOU REALIZE WHY YOU HATE GUNS.

You say you do, but when it comes to a showdown or proving it, you say one thing then you do the opposite.

If we're all playing showdown, I'd like to see the cards when they fall.

We're having a showdown here.

But when the showdown comes, we always stand alone.

The point is, if it comes to a showdown, are you with us or not?

What's that do to our showdown?

So they wanted a showdown, did they?

We know what we're asking and the chances you'd be taking, but it's come to a showdown, who's gonna run Dodge?

It's come. They're having a showdown.

I went up there for a showdown, and she admitted it. but she stumbled and fell through the window.

If it's a showdown you want, this is the right place for it.

You can't put off a showdown!

You get a move on and get up here, or this is finally finally the showdown.

We're having a showdown with the client.

Now, I demand a showdown.

This is a showdown.

We'll have a showdown! I'll command him.

We'll have a showdown!

We'll pick them off patiently, one by one, until the final showdown.

So tomorrow's the showdown?

To invite you to the races, but it's going to be a showdown.

We've got to have a showdown.

It's time for a showdown.

Everything I've done, I've done just to get right here to this showdown.

Tomorrow morning is the showdown.

I have this. This here's a showdown.

News and current affairs

Like North Korea, the Iranian government will not shy from a showdown over its nuclear program.

They do not have to detonate a nuclear weapon, but only alert adversaries to the dramatic increase in the political stakes and dangers of a showdown.

PARIS - After months of wrangling, the showdown between Greece and its European creditors has come down to a standoff over pensions and taxes.

Facing the Israelis together is the only way that the rival Palestinian groups will postpone their own bloody showdown.

ISTANBUL - The ongoing showdown in Egypt between the country's Islamists and its military rulers is a clear reminder of how difficult democratic transitions in the Arab world are likely to be.

Is it too late to prevent a showdown?

So China has a large strategic interest in working with the US to avoid a showdown.

So what other bills do they plan not to pay as part of a showdown over legislation to keep the government funded?

I can think of few European officials less suitable for a showdown with Saddam Hussein.

WASHINGTON, DC - Leading United States congressmen are determined to provoke a showdown with the Obama administration over the federal government's debt ceiling.

What was supposed to be a major international effort at mediation is deteriorating into an apocalyptic Israeli-Iranian showdown.

It seems that the Syrian regime is painting itself into a dark and dreary corner, a development that could set the stage for a potential showdown with the US in the not-so-distant future.

Israel's leaders believe that the day of reckoning with Hamas will come only when the conditions for a major military showdown are riper.

PARIS - In the showdown with Russia over Ukraine, the weaknesses and divisions in European policy have been as encouraging for Russian President Vladimir Putin as America's hesitant approach to Syria was.

Indeed, they probably contemplate land incursions into Iran, and possibly a decisive - and, from their perspective, long overdue - showdown with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Though determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even if doing so requires military action, the US weighs the consequences of a military showdown in very different terms.

And only that outcome can secure the international goodwill that both Israel and the US will need for a showdown with Iran.

Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.

Meanwhile, even as a civil-military showdown in Pakistan compounds Washington's regional challenges, the new US push to contain Iran threatens to fuel greater turbulence in neighboring Afghanistan.

Of course, the West - particularly the US - bears its share of responsibility for the failure to find a diplomatic solution to the current showdown with Russia.