单词 | call on |
释义 | call onSEE SYNONYMS FOR call on ON THESAURUS.COM Also, call upon. Make a request, ask for, choose, as in We are calling upon you to run for chairman, or The teacher called on Joe to answer. [c. 1400] Pay a brief visit, as in The salesman said he'd call on me in the morning. Shakespeare had this usage in Antony and Cleopatra (1:4): “I'll call upon you ere you go to bed.” [Late 1500s] Words nearby call oncall names, call number, call of duty, call off, call of nature, call on, call one's own, call on the carpet, callop, callosal, callosal gyrus The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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