take up the gauntlet
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See throw down the gauntlet. (Cf. French relever le gant)
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take up the gauntlet (third-person singular simple present takes up the gauntlet, present participle taking up the gauntlet, simple past took up the gauntlet, past participle taken up the gauntlet)
- (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, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 99:
- It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.
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accept a challenge
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