throw down the gauntlet

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throw down the gauntlet 的定义

  1. Declare or issue a challenge, as in The senator threw down the gauntlet on the abortion issue. This expression alludes to the medieval practice of a knight throwing down his gauntlet, or metal glove, as a challenge to combat. Its figurative use dates from the second half of the 1700s, as does the less frequently heard take up the gauntlet, for accepting a challenge.

throw down the gauntlet 近义词

v. 动词 verb

invite to do battle

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  2. Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
  3. That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.
  4. A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.
  5. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  6. The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
  7. I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
  8. His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
  9. If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
  10. So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.