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call
off
To re
call
; to cancel or
call
a halt to.
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call
on
To visit somebody; to pay a
call
.
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call
up
An order to report for military service.
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call
in
To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
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call
in
To summon someone, especially for help or advice.
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call
on
In a classroom, to select a student.
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call
out
To specify, especially in detail.
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call
out
To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.
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call
in
To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
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call
out
To order into service; to summon into service.
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call
out
To arrange for a professional to
call
at your home for some purpose.
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call
out
To challenge.
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cattle
call
An audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced.
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call
forth
To induce, inspire.
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call
on
To request or ask of somebody; to select for a task.
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call
on
To correct; to point out an error or untruth.
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tough
call
A choice or judgment which is difficult to make, especially one involving only two alternatives.
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call
it quits
To conclude; to quit or stop an activity.
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call
it a day
To cease the activity for the day.
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call
it a day
To retire.
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call
it a night
To cease what one has been doing for the night.
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call
it a night
To go to bed to sleep.
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call
it even
To declare debts resolved or favors or other exchange equitable.
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call
someone's bluff
To take action on the basis that another person is bluffing.
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call
the shots
To make the decisions;to be in charge;to give orders.
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call
off the carpet
To get away from
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call
off the dogs
During a one-sided sports contest, to remove the first-string unit of a team from the game after dominating the opponent.
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call
off the dogs
To ease up on after inflicting great punishment.
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first port of
call
The first place to go to start a process.
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first port of
call
The first port that a vessel
call
s in at after the start of a voyage.
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at one's beck and
call
In servitude to; at one’s command.
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be at one's beck and
call
To be in the position of serving someone in any way they desire, usually unwillingly.
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above and beyond the
call
of duty
Extremely heroic, more heroic that what is expected.
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desperate times
call
for desperate measures
In adverse circumstances actions that might have been rejected under other circumstances may become the best choice.
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call
'em as one sees 'em
To candidly and honestly express an opinion or viewpoint.
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call
a spade a spade
To speak the truth; to say things as they really are.
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ring in
To make a phone
call
to one's usual place of work.
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ring back
To return a phone
call
.
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ring back
To make another phone
call
to the same person.
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ring round
To
call
a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something.
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ring up
To telephone, to
call
on the telephone.
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hang up
To terminate a phone
call
.
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knock up
In the morning as by knocking at the door; rouse;
call
; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
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bite of the reality sandwich
A wake-up
call
, a reality check.
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bring forward
To
call
up for consideration.
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call
ing card
A prepaid card or credit card, usually electroni
call
y readable, used to pay the charges when making a telephone
call
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che sera sera
Used to express a personal philosophy of fatalism1604, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:Why then belike we must sin, / And so consequently die. / Aye, we must die an everlasting death. / What doctrine
call
you this ? Che, sera, sera: / What will be*, shall be; Divinity adieu. / These Metaphysics of Magicians, / And necromantic books, are heavenly.
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desperate times require desperate measures
Alternative form of desperate times
call
for desperate measures.
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drop a dime
To make a phone
call
, usually means
call
ing the police to report another's activities.
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drop somebody a line
To write,
call
or visit somebody.
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