call one's bluff

[call one's bluff] {v. phr.}, {informal} To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.)

* /Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said "Let's see you do it!"/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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