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It was a mediaeval knights way of challenging to a fight - throw down a mailed glove; the oppose would accept by picking up the gauntlet.
To 'throw down the gauntlet' is to issue a challenge to somebody - Indeshaw Adenaw
Money Power and Respect The Series - 2010 Throw Down the Gauntlet 1-11 was released on: USA: 2 August 2010
This means one person challenges (throws down on to the floor a gauntlet, a type of heavy glove, worn by knights) another to a fight or a joust.
It means to issue a challenge, usually in a very aggressive way, as if you are throwing down a gauntlet.
There are quite a few terms for challenging someone: "Walk in your shoes" "throw down the gauntlet"
"throwing down the gauntlet" means to challenge someone. They used to do it when dueling was popular. Someone would throw down their gauntlet, and if the person took it up, that meant that they accepted the challenge and the fight was on. Today, we don't usually wear gauntlets, but we still challenge each other, and argue... so a "proverbial gauntlet" would be something that someone would use to challenge someone else, or if you said "she threw down the proverbial gauntlet" you would mean that she challenged someone else for leadership or supremacy. "proverbial" means "from a proverb" but sometimes just means old... something from the legends or tales of the past, as it does in this case.
Rizzoli and Isles - 2010 Throwing Down the Gauntlet 3-5 is rated/received certificates of: Netherlands:12
Throw You Down was created in 1990.
The duration of Throw Down is 1.58 hours.
Throw Down was created on 2004-07-15.
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