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Run the gauntlet

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To run the gauntlet means going through a difficult situation where you face a series of challenges or attacks.

The phrase comes from an old military punishment in which a person had to pass between two lines of soldiers who struck them as they went by.

She ran a gauntlet of whispers and stares once the rumor went around at school.