- bluff, call one's
- Challenge one, in order to reveal the fact that one is indulging in pretence
A concise dictionary of English slang (2nd edition) . Brian Phythian. 2015.
bluff, call one's
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call one's bluff — See bluff, call one s … A concise dictionary of English slang
call one's bluff — challenge someone to prove what they say is true I decided to call his bluff and asked him to show me the evidence … Idioms and examples
call one's bluff — {v. phr.}, {informal} To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) * /Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said Let s see you do it! / … Dictionary of American idioms
call one's bluff — {v. phr.}, {informal} To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) * /Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said Let s see you do it! / … Dictionary of American idioms
call\ one's\ bluff — v. phr. informal To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said Let s see you do it! … Словарь американских идиом
call one's bluff — verb ask to prove what someone is claiming John called Mary s bluff when she claimed she could prove the theorem in under an hour • Hypernyms: ↑challenge • Verb Frames: Somebody s * * * phrasal : to challenge and expose an empty pretense or… … Useful english dictionary
call one's bluff — phrasal to challenge in order to expose an empty pretense or threat … New Collegiate Dictionary
Bluff (poker) — In the card game of poker, to bluff is to bet or raise with an inferior hand. This is useful because it can cause other players to believe the bluffing player has a dominant hand, so that they all fold; the bluffing player then wins the pot. By… … Wikipedia
bluff — I adj 1. frank, open, honest, candid, plain spoken, outspoken; direct, plain, straightforward, downright; crude, rough, unvarnished, burly, blustering. 2. steep, sheer, abrupt, sudden, precipitous; perpendicular, vertical; acclivitous, ascending … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
bluff — See: CALL ONE S BLUFF … Dictionary of American idioms
