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Gloves came off?

So, what happens if a boxer decides to take their gloves off during a match?

No-one actually does this in a real match because it’s illegal, but for the sake of argument what happens when a boxer does take the gloves off?

The means, of course, that he is now ready to use his bare knuckles. And that has to mean he is angry and intends to harm his opponent.

Basically, that’s the idea.

So in our example, when the gloves are off, it means the debate and the fight for presidential nomination is to begin in serious earnest. Candidates no longer care to mince words, for example, and tempers are going to flare.

In other words, things can really get ugly.

All right. Let’s call it quits here. I want to call it quits because, you see, even though the “gloves” are something interesting to talk about, American politics is not. So let’s turn to media examples in order to get a better feel for the proverbial gloves outside the realm of boxing:

1. THE post-Watergate consensus which forced the CIA and the FBI to fight America’s dirty wars to the cleanest of standards is under attack as Washington begins its war against terror.

President Bush has now handed £650 million to the CIA and told the organisation it can kill Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants.

That decision had been foreshadowed in the president’s public statements and had been supported across the political spectrum. There have even been calls from within the FBI for agents to be allowed to torture suspects.