bluff
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5.5
- noun
- /blʌf/
- David felt small for calling her bluff and thought of her friend who'd died.
- call the bluff
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Watch on YouTubeSo Noske had essentially called von Lutvitz's bluff and refused the general's demands.
- So Noske had essentially called von Lutvitz's bluff and refused the general's demands.
- And so I would just call Elon's bluff and say, yeah, we accept and see.
- It's like, yeah, they will, they will tear down your bluff very, very simply.
- But until you call the bluff, then you're just complaining because you like to complain.
- And yet the Pakistanis say that the Indian doctrine is a bluff.
- I am, in a friendly way, trying to call your bluff.
- And so I guess if you leave with anything, just call my bluff.
- I think that was a mistake, but sometimes in a poker game a bluff wins the pot.
- This is not a bluff in a thinly veiled threat of using nuclear weapons.
- But I agree with what Alex said that this is a, a way of calling the bluff and we'll have to see what it leads to.
- It means that prudent nuclear Bluffs must be just that, bluff.
Examples
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I knew that good poker strategy recommended allowing yourself to be caught in a failed bluff sometimes.
Fiction book (1997) -
Basic rule: Always call their bluff.
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No bluff, it's the Union calling a bluff that the company was putting out there.
Blog text (18) -
I think that was a mistake, but sometimes in a poker game a bluff wins the pot.
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And now, since he called your idiotic bluff, he knows it, too.
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They're calling our bluff, sir.
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I called his bluff, sweetheart, that's all.
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You called their bluff.
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I'm calling his bluff.
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In poker, a well-timed bluff can often lead to winning a hand without showing your cards.
Synonyms
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4.9
A clever trick used to gain an advantage in talk or negotiation
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7.7
A clever trick to deceive someone
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9.9
An attempt to trick others by pretending to have a strong poker hand or more success than you have
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9.9
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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6.3
Challenge someone to prove they are serious when you think they are not
Compounds
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bluff The noun bluff meaning a false threat or trick likely comes from the Dutch word bluffen meaning 'to brag' or from the image of 'puffing up' to look stronger than you are. So a bluff is a show of strength that may be only pretend.