studs up

English

Prepositional phrase

studs up

  1. (soccer) With the studs (cleats) of ones boots exposed to hit another player, in a way that violates the rules.
    • 2011 April 17, Rob Bagchi, “Bolton Wanderers v Stoke City - as it happened!”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Huth flies into a sliding tackle, studs up, but gets the ball off Elmander.
    • 2018 February 27, Amy Bass, One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      One guy took a run at Maslah from thirty yards out, slamming into him, studs up, nailing his knee.
  2. (UK, by extension) Aggressively, ruthlessly and recklessly.
    • 2023 October 31, John Crace, Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
      So it was that Oily Mike found himself up against Angela Rayner in the Commons for the third time in a matter of weeks. Labour's deputy leader went in studs up.
    • 2024 October 4, Henry Hill, “Tories must share the blame for the national embarrassment of the Chagos handover”, in Conservative Home‎[2]:
      As Truss’s foreign secretary, it was he who was tasked with opening negotiations, and who said at the time that he hoped to have them wrapped up by last year. That made his decision to go in studs up on the Government’s announcement understandable, on one level, but nonetheless what Sir Humphrey might have described as “courageous”.
    • 2024 November 21, Tim Shipman, Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:
      The Vote Leavers were adept at studs-up political campaigning, the City Hall people from Johnson's time as mayor of London were hard-wired for governing.
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