I started trying to imagine who would win in a throw-down between the two.

Their fear of a real political throw-down with Obama is obvious.

It was more a gentle throw-down than a bomb.

“His friends came to his house and they decided to have a throw-down.”

Whether it's his house or yours, do not get dragged into a turkey-dinner throw-down.

Here’s one for a marketing challenge throw-down: how do you get people under 40 to attend and return to opera performances — in central Texas?

In the end, the Throw-Down in Motown didn't amount to much.

Might we expect a throw-down or two between her and Smith's Dowager Countess?

Wouldn't know a hoe-down from a throw-down.

Aside from the flowery rhetoric and pleas for bipartisan cooperation, his speech was something of a throw-down to conservative lawmakers.

A potentially incendiary throw-down gets lost in a redundancy of too-long, too-close readings.

Time for throw-down.

Jeremy recovered from the first throw-down, and managed to slice a gash in Malcolm's foreleg but that was the only hit he scored.

He then executed a signature throw-down: He threatened to take the bill directly to the House floor and curtail the chances of making changes.

But this tedious throw-down couldn't defeat the mood of a group that challenges fans to upend its ideas of what hip-hop can be.

Griffin even had one of his highlight-reel dunks, a right hand to the left hand throw-down over Kris Humphries.

What's a throw-down?

The rematch was a very different occasion from the first debate — a "throw-down," as NBC News' Brian Williams called it.

Swann's heroics and Lambert's 14 tackles and throw-down of Cliff Harris are the indelible images from the game.

Snoopzilla and Dâm-Funk are hanging out in front of their low rider-a time machine, in fact-with some thuggish throw-down happening at the theater doors.

The big throw-down for me was "Rich Man, Poor Man" and "Roots" — those were the watershed television moments for me growing up.

Teammates still talk about his dunk over Los Angeles Clippers center Michael Olowokandi, a ferocious throw-down that had the arena buzzing for minutes.

Bass guitarist Chip Shearin and drummer Jabari, also generously showcased, made for a potent combination during a funk throw-down finale.

Armed with a bat, the trio of late-night hosts resembled a similar throw-down between Colbert, Stewart and Conan O'Brien during the 2007-2008 writers strike.

In March, AlphaGo has a throw-down scheduled with Lee Sedol, who has been the top Go player in the world for the past decade.