toe to toe

adv

1. Positioned facing another, with the toes touching.
2. At the same level as someone else.

   “standing toe to toe”

3. Against, in direct opposition.

   “go toe to toe with someone”

   “It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.”