clearing the decks (verb) clear the decks: get ready for action
Sinonime: adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness