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To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
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The police called off the search for the missing boy.
Submitted on October 12, 2012
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- at full tilt
- back to square one
- baggage
- beside oneself
- black babies
- carry one's weight
- catch a tan
- cut and dried
- daily grind
- dead duck
- dyed-in-the-wool
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- free-for-all
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- give somebody an earful
- gloss over
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- head-in-the-sand
- hit someone for six
- if only
- in order
- is the pope catholic
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- keep an eye out
- long row to hoe
- not half bad
- nugget of truth
- off and on
- off the mark
- on the right track
- on thin ice
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