Definition of throw down the gauntlet in the Idioms Dictionary. Throw down the gauntlet phrase. What does throw down the gauntlet expression mean? Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary.

Gauntlet or The Gauntlet may refer to:

Common uses[edit]

• Gauntlet (glove), protective gloves used as a form of armor
• Running the gauntlet, a form of physical punishment

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

• Gauntlet (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
• Gauntlet (Inhuman), a Marvel Comics supervillain

Games[edit]

• Gauntlet (1985 video game), a 1985 4-player arcade game with many followups:
  • Gauntlet II, a 1986 arcade sequel
  • Gauntlet (NES video game), a 1987 adaptation of the first game
  • Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, a 1990 game for the Atari Lynx
  • Gauntlet III: The Final Quest, a 1991 home computer game
  • Gauntlet Legends, a 1998 arcade game
  • Gauntlet Dark Legacy, a 2000 arcade game
  • Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, a 2005 video game
  • Gauntlet (2014 video game), developed by Arrowhead Game studios
  • Gauntlet (Nintendo DS), an unreleased remake of the first game
• Gauntlet (Donald R. Lebeau video game), a 1984 shoot 'em up game for the Atari 8-bit family
• Gauntlet (Micro Power video game), a 1984 Defender clone
• The Gauntlet (module), an adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons

Television[edit]

Series[edit]

• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet (2003–2004), an MTV reality television game show series
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II (2005–2006), an MTV reality television game show series
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III (2008), an MTV reality television game show series

Episodes[edit]

• 'Gauntlet' (Stargate Universe), an episode of Stargate Universe
• 'The Gauntlet', an episode of MacGyver

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

• Gauntlet (newspaper), published by students at the University of Calgary
• 'The Gauntlet' (comics), a Spider-Man storyline
• The Gauntlet (film), 1977, starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke
• The Gauntlet (novel), a children's book, written by Ronald Welch, 1951

Sports[edit]

• Gauntlet for the Gold, a professional wrestling match type exclusive to TNA Wrestling
• Gauntlet match, a professional wrestling match type

Other uses[edit]

• Gauntlet (body piercing studio), a former California-based company, closed in 1998
• Gauntlet (keyboard), a wireless glove used as a computer input device
• Gauntlet track, a type of railroad track
• Gloster Gauntlet, a British biplane
• SA-15 'Gauntlet', a Soviet surface-to-air missile

See also[edit]

In Phoenix, Arizona, alcoholic and mediocre Detective Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) is assigned by Chief Commissary Blakelock (William Prince) to bring witness Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas, Nevada for a minor trial. Shockley travels to Las Vegas and finds that Gus Mally is an aggressive and intelligent prostitute with a college degree and she tells him that the odds are against her showing up in court. Shockley learns that she will actually testify against a powerful mobster, and the mafia is chasing them, trying to kill them both.

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He calls Blakelock and requests a Police escort from Phoenix to protect them. But soon, he discovers that someone is betraying him in the Police Department. Now, Shockley and Malley hijack a bus and Shockley welds thick steel plates and transforms the cabin in an armored bus trying to reach the Forum.

But they will need to drive through a gauntlet of Police Officers armed with heavy weapons. Hands down, Sondra Lockes best performance.So then,why does this film need all the over the top violence? It does so because most men won't want to admit they like a love story, or go to the movies to see one. This movie is a top rate love story, from beginning to end. What possibly could this movie have in common with Fight Club,or even As Good as it Gets?

In Fight Club, Ed Norton meets a girl that he obviously can not handle, so he reinvents himself. Same with Ben Shockley. He meets his match, so he must act quickly, making up a story about snakes at the cave. He then thinks on his feet, and acquires himself a bike, impressing the girl and cementing their alliance. Jack Nicholson breaks down to Helen Hunt and claims 'You make me want to be a better man'.Estwood starts saying please, and and emotes a deep trust in his counterpart; He realizes he must soften up a little to keep the lady around.He does.

Shockley isn't some phony Top Gun hero who loses the girl, he's a loser who does what he has to get the woman in love with him, and it works, this is his only chance at love. This is Lockes best film. Is it because of the acting or is this Lockes personality? She does it well enough where you honestly believe she is ad libbing at least half of her lines, pulling them off the top of her tongue.

She sizzles, oozing sex in the back seat of the cop car. You honestly believe she is so used to verbal abuse that she sits there and takes the insults. She is just playing possum, lying in wait. She takes her turn, and delivers a knockout counter-punch to the constable,forcing his mind to admit that he is just a sleazeball flunkie. What is best, is that nothing but honesty and cold reality come out of her mouth. Eastwood accepts the truth, and lives. The constable refuses, and dies.

Locke is the anti-feminazi. She saves her mans life, and immediately wants to go back to being a real woman, in his arms.This movie deserves a ten, because the action scenes are just there so people can handle all of the raw truth in the movie.