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Take up the gauntlet
verb
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1.
verb
To 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 gantlet
take up the glove
run the gauntlet
take up the cudgels
go up against
bring on
take one's courage in both hands
put up one's dukes
take the bull by the horns
come to the scratch
step to
take a run at
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