plz...need your help...what's "call someone's bluff"mean?

Question

i appreciate if you explain it in detail for me...

Answer 1

"call someone's bluff" originated from poker. when you are playing a poker game, you place bets if you think you have the best hand (the best five cards). sometimes you know that who have really really bad cards and that someone has you beat, but you will bluff the pot to try to win all the money. if someone calls your bet, that means they called your bluff.. they knew you were lying about having the best hand.

outside of the card-playing world, to "call someone's bluff" means to catch them in a lie. like let's say you are being held at gunpoint and the guy says "i will shoot you if you don't give me your money." you say fine go ahead shoot me... and he doesn't and just runs away... thats calling his bluff. basically it's you don't believe that someone is going to do what they say they are going to do.

hope this helps

Answer 2

Call My Bluff Examples

Answer 3

If someone says something to you that you don't think is true, you call their bluff, like saying "OK, show me" or "prove it".
You've got to be careful though, sometimes they're telling the truth and it doesn't look good after you call them on it.

Answer 4

It means if someone is lying to you, or misleading you, or telling you something not true, and you can prove they are wrong, you have just called their bluff.

Or, if your playing poker and someone bets and you call the bet, and win, you called their bluff.

Answer 5

To bluff means to lie in order to win. If someone says something in a game that sounds suspicious and you tell them they're bluffing, that would be "Call someone's bluff".

Answer 6

If you have information that will prove that someone is being untruthful or deceptive about something and you face them with that information - that is "calling their bluff"!

Answer 7

If you think they are lying. you call their bluff.. and challenge them to give proof of his claims. If they can't and they were lying.. then u called their bluff.

For example.. somebody says.. "I will kill you if you don't give me the money" and you think that they are lying so you dont give him the money.. and they dont kill you... well then you called his bluff..

Another example is in poker... somebody bets alot... but you think his got a bad hand... and his just betting alot to scare the rest to fold. but if you dont fold and you call his bluff.. and he has to prove that he wasn't bluffing... but if he was (and you won) then he was bluffing.. and you called his bluff...

Hope this helps

Answer 8

It derives from Poker - to bet with a poor hand is to "bluff". If someone calls the bet so that you have to lose your chips, he's "called your bluff."
Thus - if your boyfriend says, "If you don't have sex with me, I'm gonna kill myself!" and you say, "Let's see it," you've called his bluff. He ain't killing himself.

Answer 9

if someone's bluffing it means they are pretending and taking a risk...e.g a student saying that their homework is in their locker when really they havnt done it

calling a bluff is when you tak a risk to proove they are lying e.g. the teacher following them to their locker to get the homework

Answer 10

when playing poker, to call someone's bluff
means that when you know someone is lying about there hand when they bet or raise,
you call that amount.. or put in your money because you don't believe that your opponent has what they claim to have.