pick up the gauntlet

1. 1.

   be dared to do something and attempt it

   Synonymstake a dare

   Broadertry

Questions about pick up the gauntlet

What does pick up the gauntlet mean?

pick up the gauntlet means "be dared to do something and attempt it".

What is another word for pick up the gauntlet?

Close synonyms include take a dare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pick up the gauntlet a common word?

pick up the gauntlet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.