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Definition of Pick up the gauntlet
1. Verb. Be dared to do something and attempt it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pick Up The Gauntlet
Literary usage of Pick up the gauntlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The phrases throw down the gauntlet and pick up the gauntlet arose from the
medieval custom of throwing down a glove to issue a challenge. ..."
2. Screamfree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool by Hal Edward Runkel (2005)
"These are all tests, tests that only become "battles" when we take responsibility
for our child and pick up the gauntlet. Refusing to Pick Up the Gauntlet ..."
3. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learningby Peter H. Johnston by Peter H. Johnston (2004)
"It leans quite heavily on the student to both view herself as an author, and to
pick up the gauntlet of challenge. Interestingly, if she does pick up the ..."
4. A Hundred Battles in the West: St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65. The Second by Marshall P. Thatcher (1884)
"... not sooner, and took up his return march at a walk-*ready for a fight, if the
enemy saw fit to pick up the gauntlet thrown at their feet. ..."
5. The Founding of the German Empire by William I.: Based Chiefly Upon Prussian by Heinrich von Sybel (1898)
"... now urged the Court, the army, and the press to pick up the gauntlet thrown
down by Prussia, and to restore the now tarnished fame of the dynasty to its ..."
6. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"I will pick up the gauntlet, and give you the result of 3 years' study of the
habits of this " Wolf in sheep's clothing." He is both a granivorous and ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"Should he be beaten, he will give himself up to be treated like a common thief.
Walther von der Vogelweide is the first to pick up the gauntlet. ..."
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