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Battle of wits   /bˈætəl əv wɪts/   Listen
Battle of wits

noun
1.
A contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used.





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... he will spend hours with anyone who will listen. The physician who allows himself to be drawn into the controversy speedily finds himself, instead of giving advice to listening ears, involved in a battle of wits in which he is quite likely to come off second best. He assures the patient, for example, that, as far as scientific methods can establish the fact, the ...
— Why Worry? • George Lincoln Walton, M.D.


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