throw down the gauntlet

They have thrown down the gauntlet to American science on this point.

In one area, the Mayor did throw down the gauntlet.

Then it's this other feeling, as though someone has just thrown down the gauntlet.

Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group.

In other words, someone throws down the gauntlet, do you pick it up?

To "throw down the gauntlet" is to issue a challenge.

A common figure of speech is to say that someone "threw down the gauntlet".

Throwing down the gauntlet may be his best Olympic event.

"We're doing something really bold and direct, which is throwing down the gauntlet."

Ever so discreetly, the coach has thrown down the gauntlet.

"You don't need to throw down the gauntlet on every issue," he says.

We are throwing down the gauntlet before the debate.

This is the origin of the phrase "throwing down the gauntlet".

Real easy to throw down the gauntlet when you're a thousand miles away, isn't it?

Anyone who passes her has thrown down the gauntlet.

The youngsters threw down the gauntlet in the midweek game.

Then came the time when he felt himself strong enough to throw down the gauntlet to the adherents of the old philosophy.

"Well, Pete, that sounds to me like you are throwing down the gauntlet.

Thomas said he did not address his players, but, through the news media, he threw down the gauntlet.

"His style is not to throw down the gauntlet.

His candidacy throws down the gauntlet to other Democrats.

"No one has thrown down the gauntlet," he insisted, sounding like a man who was preparing to do so.

After 40 years of frustration and bitterness, exiles here have said they were throwing down the gauntlet today.

Now two books have thrown down the gauntlet.

At the same time, Hoffman also threw down the gauntlet to his dealer force of 3,500 to sell 151,000 units by year's end.