call bluff

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• call bluff — call (your) bluff to make someone do what they said they will do. He said he would help, and now his opponents have called his bluff and asked him to provide the funds. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of calling a bluff in a card game (=… …   New idioms dictionary

• call bluff — call (someone s) bluff to make someone prove that what they are saying is true, or to make someone prove that they will really do what they say they will do, because you do not believe them. Alice called his bluff and dared him to tell everyone… …   New idioms dictionary

• call your bluff — ◇ If you have made a bluff or a threat and people call your bluff, they tell you to do the thing you have threatened to do because they do not believe that you will really do it. When she threatened to quit her job, her boss called her bluff and… …   Useful english dictionary

• call someone's bluff — To expose or challenge someone s show of strength, confidence, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑bluff * * * call someone’s bluff phrase to ask someone to do what they are threatening to do because you believe they do not intend to do it, but want to trick… …   Useful english dictionary

• bluff — Ⅰ. bluff [1] ► NOUN ▪ an attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something. ► VERB ▪ try to deceive someone as to one s abilities or intentions. ● call someone s bluff Cf. ↑call someone s bluff …   English terms dictionary

• call your bluff — call (your) bluff to make someone do what they said they will do. He said he would help, and now his opponents have called his bluff and asked him to provide the funds. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of calling a bluff in a card game (=… …   New idioms dictionary

• call someone's bluff — call (someone s) bluff to make someone prove that what they are saying is true, or to make someone prove that they will really do what they say they will do, because you do not believe them. Alice called his bluff and dared him to tell everyone… …   New idioms dictionary

• call someone's bluff — ► call someone s bluff challenge someone to carry out a stated intention, in the expectation of being able to expose it as a pretence. Main Entry: ↑bluff …   English terms dictionary

• call — [kôl] vt. [ME callen < Late OE ceallian & or < ON kalla < IE base * gal , to scream, shriek > Brythonic galw, call, Ger klage & (?) MIr gall, swan] 1. to say or read in a loud tone; shout; announce [to call the names of stations] 2.… …   English World dictionary

• call somebody's bluff — call sb s ˈbluff idiom to tell sb to do what they are threatening to do, because you believe that they will not be cruel or brave enough to do it Main entry: ↑callidiom …   Useful english 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