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to call someone's bluff

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Definition of to call someone's bluff words

  • phrase to call someone's bluff If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it. 0
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Parts of speech for To call someone's bluff

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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to call someone's bluff popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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