enter the lists

Verb

Meaning

enter the lists (third-person singular simple present enters the lists, present participle entering the lists, simple past and past participle entered the lists)

(UK, figuratively) To take part in a struggle or conflict.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. Seneca

Close letter words and terms

enter the dance floor enter the equation enter the labour market enter the novitiate enter the picture enter the religious order