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Take up the gauntlet

verb

Definitions

1.verbTo accept a challenge.
"He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway."

Synonyms

take up the gantlettake up the gloverun the gauntlettake up the cudgelsgo up againstbring ontake one's courage in both handsput up one's dukestake the bull by the hornscome to the scratchstep totake a run at
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