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Gladyator89 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

defy-idioms

is there any idioms that means "defy"?
  

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Lots. It depends on what sense of "defy" you want to express. To personally challenge--To throw down the gauntlet To strongly oppose--To set one's face against To openly disregard--to fly in the face of To face danger--to put one's head in the lion's mouth And so forth.

  • Lots.
  • It depends on what sense of "defy" you want to express.
  • To personally challenge--To throw down the gauntlet To strongly oppose--To set one's face against To openly disregard--to fly in the face of To face danger--to put one's head in the lion's mouth And so forth.
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Lots. It depends on what sense of "defy" you want to express.

To personally challenge--To throw down the gauntlet
To strongly oppose--To set one's face against
To openly disregard--to fly in the face of
To face danger--to put one's head in the lion's mouth

And so forth.

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