地道不雅美語4: gloves off

Vowing to take the gloves off, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin unleashed an aggressive new attack against Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday, charging at her first public rally in California that her Democratic opponent sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

With or ready to dispense rough treatment; get rough, nasty. This idiom alludes to old-style boxing, when gloves were not used