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  • 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 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 My Bluff — infobox television show name = Call My Bluff caption = format = Game show runtime = 30 minutes creator = starring = Robin Ray Frank Muir Robert Morley Joe Melia Peter Wheeler Patrick Campbell Robert Robinson Arthur Marshall Bob Holness Alan Coren …   Wikipedia

  • call his bluff — challenge his story, give it to me straight, put up or shut up    When I called his bluff about low profits, he admitted that the company made 11 million …   English idioms

  • 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 — [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

  • The Man in the Brown Suit —   …   Wikipedia

  • The Palisades, Washington, D.C. — The Palisades is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River, running roughly from the edge of the Georgetown University campus (at Foxhall Road) all the way to the D.C. Maryland boundary (near Delacarlia Treatment Plant) …   Wikipedia

  • 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

  • bluff — [[t]blʌ̱f[/t]] bluffs, bluffing, bluffed 1) N VAR A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it. → See also double bluff The letter was a bluff... It is essential to build up the… …   English dictionary

  • call — 1 verb HAVE/USE A NAME 1 (T) be called sth to have a particular name or title: They have a three year old son called Matthew. | What was that book called? 2 (T) to use a particular name or title when you speak to someone: My name s Alan, but you… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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