2bluff noun
plural bluffs [count] : a false threat or claim that is meant to get someone to do something
▪ She says someone else has made her a higher offer, but I think it's just a bluff.
▪ She says someone else has made her a higher offer, but I think it's just a bluff.
call your bluff
◊If you have made a bluff or a threat and people call your bluff, they tell you to do the thing you have threatened to do because they do not believe that you will really do it.
▪ When she threatened to quit her job, her boss called her bluff and told her she could leave if she wanted to.
▪ When she threatened to quit her job, her boss called her bluff and told her she could leave if she wanted to.
— compare 3bluff
