recoger el guante

1.
All Spanish-speaking regionsneutralliteralhistorical
- To pick up a glove, historically an act that signified readiness to fight or duel.
2.
SpainLatin Americaneutralidiomatic
- To accept a challenge or respond to a provocation; to take up an offered contest, task, or dare.

Examples:

ES: Piense dos veces, señor, antes de de recoger el guante.
EN: Think twice, Sire, before you pick up the gauntlet.
ES: "Debemos recoger el guante, hay que vencer o morir.
EN: """The gauntlet is down, we must conquer or die."
ES: Banning Cocq, parece, había sido forzado, ante la insistencia de Andries de Graeff, a recoger ese guante de desafío y completar lo que ese gesto de recoger el guante significaba: él, Banning Cocq, tenía ahora que batirse con Rembrandt en algo como un combate personal.
EN: Banning Cocq, it seems, had been forced, on Andries de Graeff's insistence, to pick up that challenge glove and follow through what that picking-up gesture had meant... he, Banning Cocq, now had to fight Rembrandt in something like personal combat.
ES: Fue su opción recoger el guante.
EN: It was his choice to take up the gauntlet.
ES: Y cuando murió el patriarca estaba para recoger el guante.
EN: AND THEN WHEN THE PATRIARCH DIED, HE WAS THERE TO PICK UP THE TORCH.