看美剧学英语俚语：Call one's bluff

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Call one's bluff: 1. To challenge someone to act on their threat or prove that their claim or boast is true, when one believes they are making a false claim or idle threat;2. To disprove a bluff. Whereas the first usage simply indicates a challenge, this usage indicates that the challenge resulted in the disproval.

中文释义：“Call one's bluff”这个英文表达起源于扑克牌。在牌局中，一个玩家假装自己有一手好牌，会说很多话，或做许多肢体动作及面部表情来虚张声势，让其他玩家相信，但其实他的牌并不好，这就是“bluff”，而 call one's bluff 就是“迫使某人摊牌/拆穿某人谎言”的意思。当然，现在这个用法不仅限于牌桌上，而有了更广义的用法。例句：He insisted that he could run faster than me, but when I called his bluff, he suddenly said he had to go home.