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Remember kids, you thrown down the gauntlet, but run a gantlet.

It always used to bug me, Clint Eastwood driving an armored bus, with action hottie Sondra Locke at his side, into a glove.

No, considering her character's profession (high-priced callgirl) Clint needed to deal with a different type of glove, for safety's sake.

But a gauntlet is a glove. A gantlet is a channel to be run or navigated as a rite of passge or challenge to survival. You can throw down the gauntlet to demand someone run a gantlet.

And I'm being a bit of a prig this morning. Bite me.