call out
To specify, especially in detail.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Please call out the specific errors in this report.”
“During the meeting, the manager had to call out several mistakes in the budget proposal before they could move forward.”
“The auditor felt it was necessary to call out each discrepancy in the financial records, ensuring that the board understood the gravity of the accounting failures.”
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answer the call of nature
To satisfy a bodily urge to urinate or defecate.
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call a lid
To inform the press that no further news will be released from a governmental body that day.
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call a spade a spade
To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to describe things as they really are.
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call an audible
To change plans at the last minute in response to new information.
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call it
To call it a day
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call it a day
To cease an activity.
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call it a night
To go to bed to sleep.
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call it an early night
To go to bed or cease one's activities earlier in the evening than usual.
Last updated August 10, 2026