Running the gauntlet

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What Wikipedia says

"Running the gauntlet" is a form of corporal punishment in which one or more individuals are forced to run between two rows of people who attack them with weapons. Metaphorically, the term is also used to convey a public trial that one must overcome.

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Image: Charles-Michel Geoffroy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.