Re: dasn't take it up
- From: Don Aitken <don-aitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:02:44 +0100
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:58:03 -0400, "CDB" <unbellecd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marius Hancu wrote:I wondered about that too. The only use of "take it up" to mean
[dasn't/lump it]
"You're a fighting liar and dasn't take it up."
Unless I'm missing some posts, I don't think anyone has commented
specifically on the meaning of "take it up", maybe because it seemed
obvious. For the record: the "it" in question is the insult, the
challenge just issued; to "take it up" is to respond to the challenge.
"Take up" might be interpreted more literally if "it" referred to the
hat in question, if it had been knocked off (compare the chip on the
shoulder, the glove dropped after administering a _gifle_), but that
doesn't seem to have happened here.
[...]
"accept a challenge" which I am familiar with is in card games of the
Skat group, which I believe are of German origin.
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