call someone's bluff

Definitions

1. 1

   To take action on the basis that another person is bluffing.

   • She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.
   • Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.

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