run the gauntlet

[run the gauntlet] also [gantlet] {v. phr.}

1. To be made to run between two lines of people facing each other and be hit by them with clubs or other weapons.

* /Joe had to run the gauntlet as part of his initiation into the club./

2. To face a hard test; bear a painful experience.

* /Ginny had to run the gauntlet of her mother's questions about how the ink spot got on the dining room rug./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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