10/26/2026
What Does ‘To Run The Gauntlet’ Mean? How A Form Of Corporal Punishment Became A Popular Idiom
Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
Today, running the gauntlet means to face a series of challenges, but the idiom was originally a militaristic corporal punishment in which offenders were forced to run through two rows of people armed with weapons.
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