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call to account

idiom
Meaning

To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.


Examples
SIMPLE

The manager will call the team to account for the missing money.

CONTEXTUAL

After the project failed, the board members decided to call the director to account for his poor decisions.

COMPLEX

The citizens demanded that the government be called to account for its failure to protect the environment during the recent industrial expansion.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    answer the call of nature

    To satisfy a bodily urge to urinate or defecate.

  2. 02

    call a lid

    To inform the press that no further news will be released from a governmental body that day.

  3. 03

    call a spade a spade

    To put it bluntly, to be outspoken; to speak the truth, to describe things as they really are.

  4. 04

    call an audible

    To change plans at the last minute in response to new information.

  5. 05

    call it

    To call it a day

  6. 06

    call it a day

    To cease an activity.

  7. 07

    call it a night

    To go to bed to sleep.

  8. 08

    call it an early night

    To go to bed or cease one's activities earlier in the evening than usual.

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