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To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
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The police called off the search for the missing boy.
Submitted on October 12, 2012
More phrases:
- call on
- come round
- cover up
- hand over
- pass out
- pick up
- prevail upon
- puff out
- put back
- put down to
- put off
- ring back
- stamp out
- stand back
- straighten out
- stretch out
- zero in on
- a cold day in hell
- above board
- at the ready
- at the wheel
- beat around the bush
- bite one's tongue
- carry one's weight
- chow down
- first port of call
- fish or cut bait
- food chain
- get one's claws into
- go without saying
- ham it up
- hand in hand
- hang a ralph
- hard of hearing
- haul ass
- have a blast
- heart to heart
- in detail
- in its infancy
- in one's cups
- look like
- lower the boom
- middle ground
- no frills
- not half bad
- one fell swoop
- out of one's depth
- out of the blue
- piffy on a rock bun
- play it by ear
- pretty pictures
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- quick-and-dirty
- rule with an iron fist
- second banana
- see someone through
- see yellow
- shot in the arm
- spic and span
- square meal
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