Significado: bluff 
blʌf n. penhasco, escarpa; blefe, logro, fanfarronada v. blefar; lograr; enganar adj. escarpado; simples e de bom temperamento
call bluff Idioma
call his bluff
call one's bluff
Idiom(s): call one's bluffTheme: CHALLENGE
to demand that someone prove a claim; to demonstrate that a person is or is not being deceptive.
• All right, I'll call your bluff Show me you can do it!
• Tom said, "I've got a gun here in my pocket, and I'll shoot if you come any closer!" "Go ahead," said Bill, calling his bluff.
call one's bluff|bluff|call
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!"bluff
bluffsee call someone's bluff.
call someone's bluff
call someone's bluffExpose someone's deception, invite a showdown, as in I don't believe they have enough capital; I'm going to call their bluff. This term comes from poker, where bluffing (pretending) that one has better cards than one's opponents is an intrinsic part of the game, and calling someone's bluff means forcing them to show their cards. By the late 1800s it was being applied to other enterprises. Also see show one's hand.
call (one's) bluff
1. To claiming addition to act on their blackmail or prove that their affirmation or avowal is true, back one believes they are authoritative a apocryphal affirmation or abandoned blackmail (i.e. bluffing). He insisted that he could run faster than me, but back I alleged his bluff, he aback said he had to go home.2. To belie a bluff. Whereas the aboriginal acceptance artlessly indicates a challenge, this acceptance indicates that the claiming resulted in the disproval. I don't apperceive why he keeps authoritative these abandoned claims. I've been calling his barefaced for years and authoritative him attending like a fool.Learn more: bluff, callcall someone's bluff
to appeal that addition prove a affirmation or is not actuality deceptive. All right, I'll alarm your bluff. Show me you can do it! Tom said, "You've fabricated me absolutely angry, and I'll bite you if you appear any closer!" "Go ahead," said Bill, calling his bluff.Learn more: bluff, callcall (someone's) bluff
To appeal affidavit for or acknowledge in a arduous way to the claims or threats of addition that one presumes to be false. Learn more: bluff, callcall someone's bluff, to
To bare a deception, or claiming addition to backpack out a blackmail or prove a arguable point. The appellation comes from poker, area the players bet as to who has the best poker duke of them all. To barefaced is to bet on a duke one does not accept is the best; to alarm means to bout a bet, that is, bet an agnate amount. Back the cards are uncovered, whoever has the best duke wins the absolute pot (all the money the players accept put up). The appellation is American in agent and dates, like American poker, from the aboriginal 1800s. It was actuality transferred to added pursuits by the backward nineteenth century; “Where shall we be back that barefaced is called,” reads an access in the Congressional Record (March 1896).Learn more: call
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