call one's bluff
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| call one's bluff | |
verb | |
| ask to prove what someone is claiming; "John called Mary's bluff when she claimed she could prove the theorem in under an hour" |
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Call one's bluff
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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