take (someone) to the mat. To confront or argue with someone (about some issue). An allusion to the sport of wrestling, in which competitors try to grapple each other onto a mat to pin them or make them submit.
The senator took the president to the mat about the tax plan's negative impact on working-class citizens.
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Pin to the Mat
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