take a dare
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A newlywed pair in 1959 Florida did take a dare from a radio station and spent their two-week honeymoon underground, where the radio station and her parents called them up too many times a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
Then Jim Leonard mocked him and dared him to tell, and asked him if he would take a dare.
From The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story by William Dean Howells
Like a boy, he cannot take a dare, but fatuously allows the enemy to begin the battle upon an equal footing with his own men.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it, and Arty did because he wouldn't take a dare.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
"Don't let 'em make you take a dare," came in another whisper.
From America First by Frances Nimmo Greene
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