go to the mattresses

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To go to war; to use ruthless tactics; to act without restraint. idiomatic
    — I want Sollozzo. If not, it's all-out war. We'll go to the mattresses.

词形变化

goes to the mattresses present,singular,third-person going to the mattresses participle,present went to the mattresses past gone to the mattresses participle,past

词源

From Mario Puzo's gangster novel The Godfather (1969). Those involved in such a conflict might be expected to stay in hideouts where they would sleep on mattresses rather than in beds.
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