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
"I won't take a dare from anybody," Hervey shouted.
From Tom Slade's Double Dare by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
He lost and won large sums at horse-racing, and, indeed, he would not take a dare.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
"Yes, sir; but, Captain, the man dared me to bet, and I wouldn't take a dare from any man."
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
"I don't know where to begin, but I'm not old enough yet not to take a dare."
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Frank Lewis Nason
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