OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 32445

throw down the gauntlet

Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrojar el guante
To issue a challenge.
We might as well dispute with Dimock on a Coronation Day, as argue with these Writers. They strut, vapour, throw down the Gauntlet, and defy us to take it up.
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