take up the gauntlet

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toacceptachallenge.He doesn't read Greek, but hetook up the gauntletand did his best to understand the letter, anyway.1989,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated byH. T. Willetts,August 1914,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,→ISBN, page99:It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who hadtaken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.

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