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Sparring partner   /spˈɑrɪŋ pˈɑrtnər/   Listen
Sparring partner

noun
1.
A boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight.  Synonym: sparring mate.






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"Sparring partner" Quotes from Famous Books



... the headlines he chose sounded like paradoxes, the fact that they did not themselves agree with him, had on Chesterton's opponents and on some members of his audience one curious effect. Dr. Bridges when asked his opinion of his late sparring partner, after paying warm tribute to his brilliance as a critic, his humour and his great personal charm, discovered in his "subconscious" (Is Psychology a Curse?) "a certain intellectual recklessness that made him indifferent to truth and reality . . . fundamentally—perhaps ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward



Words linked to "Sparring partner" :   boxer, pugilist



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