call on Idiom, Proverb
call on
call on/upon
We'll call on you very shortly．我们不久就会去拜访你。
The deputies called upon the mayor to invite his cooperation in their work．代表们拜访了市长，请他在工作上给予合作。
2．ask；invite；make a demand on；appeal to sb．to do sth．要求；请求；号召
The government called on the people to practise economy．政府号召人们厉行节约。
We have to call upon the parents to help us educate the teenagers．我们必须呼吁家长协助我们教育青少年。
The Chairman called on Mr．Brown to speak at the meeting．主席请求布朗先生在会上发言。
not able to call one's time one's own
Idiom(s): not able to call one's time one's ownTheme: BUSY
too busy; so busy as not to be in charge of one's own schedule. (Informal. Not able to is often expressed as can't.)
• It's been so busy around here that I haven't been able to call my time my own.
• She can't call her time her own these days.
call one's bluff
Idiom(s): call one's bluffTheme: CHALLENGE
to demand that someone prove a claim; to demonstrate that a person is or is not being deceptive.
• All right, I'll call your bluff Show me you can do it!
• Tom said, "I've got a gun here in my pocket, and I'll shoot if you come any closer!" "Go ahead," said Bill, calling his bluff.
call on|call upon
formally invite or request" I now call upon the President to address the assembly."
Call on the carpet
If you are called on the carpet, you are summoned for a reprimand by superiors or others in power.call on|call|call upon
v. 1. To make a call upon; visit. Mr. Brown called on an old friend while he was in the city. 2. To ask for help. He called on a friend to give him money for the busfare to his home.call on the carpet|call|carpet
v. phr., informal To call (a person) before an authority (as a boss or teacher) for a scolding or reprimand. The worker was called on the carpet by the boss for sleeping on the job. The principal called Tom on the carpet and warned him to stop coming to school late.call one's bluff|bluff|call
v. phr., informal To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said "Let's see you do it!"call one's shot|call|shot
v. phr. 1. To tell before firing where a bullet will hit. An expert rifleman can call his shot regularly. The wind was strong and John couldn't call his shots. 2. callthe turn To tell in advance the result of something before you doit. Mary won three games in a row, just as she said she would. She called her turns well. Nothing ever happens as Tom says it will. He is very poor at calling his turns.call one's own
call one's ownClaim or regard something as one's possession or under one's control, as in Victorian wives had almost nothing to call their own. This expression, dating from about 1600, today is often used in a negative context, as in the example. It also appears in can't call one's time one's own, which dates from the 18th century and means one spends much of one's time in someone else's service, as in The hours in this job are terrible; I can't call my time my own.
call (one) on (something)
1. To alarm one application a buzz or added accurate accessory or platform. My grandmother consistently calls me on the buzz on my birthday. Try calling him on the landline.2. To claiming one to prove that one's claims or boasts are true. He insisted that he could run faster than me, but aback I alleged him on it, he aback had to go home. The adjudicator assuredly alleged the applicant on her ambiguous statements.3. To accost one about one's misdeeds or abhorrent behavior. If your intern keeps advancing in late, you charge to alarm her on it.Learn more: call, oncall on (someone or something)
1. To ask addition to acknowledgment a question, as in a classroom or added bookish setting. My son says that he raises his duke in chic every day, and the abecedary never calls on him. I didn't accept an acknowledgment ready, but the abecedary alleged on me anyway.2. To accompany someone, generally romantically. I don't anticipate he's absorbed in me, because how he's been calling on the babe down the street.3. To ask addition to do something. We accustomed an cutting acknowledgment aback we alleged on our associates to accord to this actual important cause.4. To advance something, generally a affection or skill. The championship bold was so acute that I absolutely had to alarm on my brainy courage aloof to get through it.5. To appointment someone. I'm apologetic I'm late—I alleged on Maggie afterwards assignment because her mother aloof died.Learn more: call, oncall (up)on someone (to do something)
to accept addition to do something. (Upon is academic and beneath frequently acclimated than on.) I alarm aloft all of you to accomplish your animosity accepted to your adopted representatives. I alleged on George for his help, but he refused.Learn more: call, oncall (up)on someone
1. to appointment someone. (Upon is academic and beneath frequently acclimated than on.) My mother's accompany alarm aloft her every Wednesday. Let's alarm on Mrs. Franklin this afternoon.
2. to accept addition to respond, as in a classroom. The abecedary alleged aloft me, but I was not accessible to recite. Please don't alarm on me. I can't bethink a thing.Learn more: call, on
call on someone
to cloister someone. Jim's calling on the new baker over at the Browns'. In the old days, a boy had to ask a girl's ancestor for permission to appear alarm on her.Learn more: call, oncall on something
Fig. to draw on something, such as a accurate affection or talent. This activity calls on all the artistic abilities you can accumulate together. It calls on aggregate you've got.Learn more: call, oncall on
Also, call upon.1. Make a request, ask for, choose, as in We are calling aloft you to run for chairman, or The abecedary alleged on Joe to answer. [c. 1400]
2. Pay a abrupt visit, as in The salesman said he'd alarm on me in the morning. Shakespeare had this acceptance in Antony and Cleopatra (1:4): "I'll alarm aloft you ere you go to bed." [Late 1500s] Learn more: call, on
call on
v.1. To baddest or appeal addition to undertake a accurate activity: The abecedary consistently calls on the acceptance in the aback row to acknowledgment questions.
2. To accomplish use of some resource; draw on something: I alleged on all my backbone to lift the bedrock that had collapsed on my foot.
3. To appointment someone: I alleged on my neighbors aftermost night and alternate a book I had borrowed.
4. To claiming addition on the accurateness or accurateness of article that has been said: When the archimage boasted that he could alter blindfolded, we alleged him on it, and he was affected to accept he was lying.
5. To acquaint addition that one has noticed that he or she has done article wrong: When I alleged her on her bad behavior, she apologized and said that it would not appear again. Learn more: call, on
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call of duty call one's own call someone's bluff call to account call to order call in question call in question, to call in sick call in your chips call in(to) call into call into question call it a day call it a day, to call it a draw call it a night call it a wash call it even call it quits call it quits, to call it/them as (one) sees it/them call it/them like (one) sees it/them call my service call names call no man happy till he dies call of duty call of nature call off call off the dogs call off the/(one's) dogs call on call on (someone or something) call on the carpet call one's own call out call over call Ralph call roll call Ruth call shotgun call somebody names call somebody to account call somebody's bluff call someone names call someone out call someone's bluff call someone's bluff, to call something your own call square call the call the burn ward call the dogs off call the shots call the shots/the tune call the tune call the wambulance
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