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What does this mean: I'll double dare you?



 
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What does this mean: I'll double dare you? #1 (permalink) Mon Sep 05, 2005 23:36 pm   What does this mean: I'll double dare you?
 

I'm having difficulties in understanding the meaning of "to double dare somebody", like in "I'll double dare you!". Any help is appreciated
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Double dare! #2 (permalink) Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:25 am   Double dare!
 

'I dare you' is a normal reply of challenge.
May be in colloquial English ,people, in reply to the above, say "I double dare you."

"Go on, I dare you."
"I don't dare to say"
" How dare you write without my permission."
The above are some of the normal patterns in which 'dare' is used.
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Double dare #3 (permalink) Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:08 am   Double dare
 

This is the sort of expression that children would use to each other when they are challenging each other to do things that involve risk and mischief. It would be a kind of extra dare.

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Pulp Fiction #4 (permalink) Fri May 14, 2010 21:17 pm   Pulp Fiction
 

Famously used by Jules (Samuel Jackson) in the movie Pulp Fiction, it refers to a "extra dare" over the traditional dare. Its dare squared!

Jules: "Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you **, say what one more ** time!"

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