单词 | call someone out |
释义 | call someone out1Summon someone to deal with an emergency or to do repairs: patients are to be told to stop calling doctors out unnecessarily at night...
2Order or advise workers to strike.‘We'd have torn up our NUJ cards if they called us out on strike,’ said another....
3 (also call someone out on something, call someone on something) North American Draw critical attention to someone’s unacceptable actions or behaviour: people were calling him out for his negative comments Dan had called her out on a couple of contradictions in her story she called him on his claim that the media were doing a bad job of covering the economy...
4 archaic Challenge someone to a duel.When he is called out to fight a duel, Boris cannot pull the trigger....
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