单词	wake-up call
释义	wake-up call /ˈweɪkʌp ˌkɔːl / noun 1A telephone call made at a prearranged time in order to wake someone up: she nearly slept through her wake-up call... Before drifting off to sleep, Horatio mentally placed a wake-up call and his mind neared consciousness. She requests a wake-up call but wakes before the designated time. Monday, 7.30 am: Myself and room partner Gary Bollan are stirred into life by the loudest wake-up call known to man. 1.1A thing that alerts people to an unsatisfactory situation and prompts them to remedy it: today’s statistics will be a wake-up call for the administration... This was the wake-up call that Newry needed and in the 24th minute they almost got the equaliser when Curran's cross was met by Maguire. It was a final wake-up call to change my lifestyle. But in 1992, Airbus executives received an unwelcome wake-up call.
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