take a dare

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.

It’s like Amazon has taken a dare to make the most unsettling consumer products it could.

But now he says, “All right,” and thrusts his roller-tip pen across the desk at me almost defiantly, as if taking a dare.

Harry declared he would not take a dare, and he got up.

Of course, Amos, boylike, could not take a dare, so he dipped the tin cup into the yellow, foamy mass and took a good big swallow.