take up the gauntlet
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To accept a challenge.
- He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 99:
- It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.
- French: relever le gant, ramasser le gantelet
- Italian: raccogliere il guanto, accettare la sfida, alzare l'asticella
- Russian: подня́ть перчатку
- Spanish: recoger el guante
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