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take up the gauntlet

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To accept a challenge.

idiomatic

Equivalents

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Examples

“He doesn't read⟳ Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand⟳ the letter, anyway.”
“It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

take up the glove take up the hatchet take up the mantle take up the running take up the slack take up with

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