go to the mattresses

Meaning: (idiomatic)To go towar; to useruthlesstactics; to act withoutrestraint.1969, Mario Puzo,The Godfather, Putnam, page132:I want Sollozzo. If not, it's all-out war. We'llgo to the mattresses.1988December 18, Glen Waggoner, “Sports: Collusion Is Over, but Excess Is Back”, inNew York Times, retrieved21 September 2008:They will have togo to the mattresses; that is they will have to risk a long ugly strike.2008, "Transcript: CNN LARRY KING LIVE—Interview with Senator Hillary Clinton," CNN analystJamal Simmonsspeaking, 21 Apr.:Now, when you're fighting Republicans . . . Democrats are all rallied around and ready to go ahead andgo to the mattresses.

Examples:

EN: Do you know what it is to go to the mattresses?
ES: ¿Sabes qué significa "ir a la lona"?
EN: To quote The Godfather, "It's time to go to the mattresses."
ES: El Padrino dice, "Es hora de visitar colchones".
EN: Well, we'd better call luca brasi, 'Cause we might have to go to the mattresses.
ES: Más vale que llamemos a Luca Brasi porque quizá debamos prepararnos para la batalla.
EN: One little explosion, and the bureau wants to go to the mattresses.
ES: Una pequeña explosión y la agencia quiere ir por el mobiliario.
EN: Now it's time for me and Paul to go to the mattresses.
ES: Ahora es el momento para mí y Paul ir a los colchones.
EN: Well, forget your fantasies of stone-walled Mafia compounds, it's actually quite a good place to "go to the mattresses."
ES: Bueno, olvide sus fantasías de compuestos de paredes de piedra de la mafia, de hecho es bastante un buen lugar para "ir a los colchones."
EN: And when we do, we go to the mattresses.
ES: Y cuando lo hagamos, iremos a los colchones.
EN: And you sure your people got your back? You telling me they gonna go to the mattresses for Julio?
ES: ¿Y estás seguro que tu gente te apoyo, que irán a la pelea por Julio?
EN: Listen, you wanna go to the mattresses over a reasonable basis test...
ES: Escuchad, si queréis ir a la guerra por una prueba con base razonable...
EN: Get me actionable data, we'll go to the mattresses.
ES: Consígueme datos fiables y pasaremos directos a la acción.
EN: We may have to go to the mattresses.
ES: Quizá duerma con los peces.
EN: that is, all our customers go to the mattresses.
HI: यही है, हमारे सभी ग्राहक गद्दे पर जाते हैं।
EN: The hypocrites go to the mattresses
HI: जिगर के टुकड़े मीरे आंसुओं में आने लगे ,
HI: ज़ुल्फ़-ए सियाह रुख़ पह परेशां किये हुए
EN: To survive, they will to go to the mattresses.
HI: वे कद्रदानों के यहाँ जाने से मर जाना भला है
EN: So let's go to the mattresses...how well do you know You've Got Mail?
HI: उच्चारण रेकार्ड करे пульт пульт [uk] क्या आप जानते हैं कैसे उच्चारण пульт करें?

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