if you challenge someone, ever heard of truth or DARE it's obvious you dare them to do something
To challenge someone is to dare someone
This means that if you see something, you really believe in it. It can also be a challenge to someone to prove something by showing you.
test
The verb of challenges is challenge. As in "to challenge someone to something".
Duel
Dare is a word that means to challenge someone to do something.
"Bite me" is a phrase expressing a challenge or a dare towards someone who said something that was perceived as offensive or derogatory in nature. It is a statement to challenge someone into a fight or further dispute, verbally or even physically.
i think its dare
It means you took on something big, like a challenge, it also means you took on someone larger than you, it can mean bravery or something done stupidly.
To dare
"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.
to contact something or someone to contact something or someone