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call someone's bluff

• challenge someone to carry out a stated intention, in the expectation of being able to expose it as a pretence.
• "she was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing he'd carry out his threat"
• (in poker or brag) make an opponent show their hand in order to reveal that its value is weaker than their heavy betting suggests.


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