"take up the gauntlet" meaning in English

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          "text": "He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.",
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          "ref": "1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 99",
          "text": "It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.",
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        "To accept a challenge."
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        "(idiomatic) To accept a challenge."
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        {
          "word": "take up the gantlet"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "priemam predizvikatelstvo",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "приемам предизвикателство"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "prendre el guant"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "ottaa haaste vastaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "relever le gant"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "herím et hakfafá",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "הֵרִים אֶת הַכְּפָפָה"
        },
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "mengambil tantangan"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "raccogliere il guanto"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podnjátʹ perčatku",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "подня́ть перчатку"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prinjátʹ výzov",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "приня́ть вы́зов"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "rach cùrsa nan slat"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "accept a challenge",
          "word": "recoger el guante"
        }
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "present"
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      "tags": [
        "past"
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      "form": "taken up the gauntlet",
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        "To accept a challenge."
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      ],
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    {
      "word": "take up the gantlet"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "priemam predizvikatelstvo",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "приемам предизвикателство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "prendre el guant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "ottaa haaste vastaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "relever le gant"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "herím et hakfafá",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "הֵרִים אֶת הַכְּפָפָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "mengambil tantangan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "raccogliere il guanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podnjátʹ perčatku",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "подня́ть перчатку"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prinjátʹ výzov",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "приня́ть вы́зов"
    },
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "rach cùrsa nan slat"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "accept a challenge",
      "word": "recoger el guante"
    }
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  "word": "take up the gauntlet"
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