“on-one”

The following 3 entries include the term on-one.

one-on-one

adjective or adverb

: playing directly against a single opposing player

on one condition

idiom

: only upon doing or accepting one (specified) thing

on one pretext or another

idiom

: using various reasons to hide the real reason for doing something


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