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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 clean
- come round
- fall into
- fire up
- phase in
- pick up
- puff out
- pull up
- put back
- put back
- ramp up
- run back
- run over
- sniff out
- start up
- suck up
- zero in on
- all duck or no dinner
- as if
- at once
- at peace
- baggage
- beat around the bush
- been to the rodeo
- cutting edge
- deafening silence
- early bath
- eye candy
- fat chance
- fly off the handle
- get by the balls
- go up in smoke
- go without saying
- goose is cooked
- half-baked
- hand in hand
- hit someone for six
- honest-to-goodness
- horse's ass
- in black and white
- in detail
- in line
- in one hell of a hurry
- it takes two to tango
- keep quiet
- kiss of death
- labor of love
- lemon law
- magic bullet
- make believe
- mind one's own business
- nail biter
- nine lives
- no joy
- odds and ends
- old school
- on the nose
- on thin ice
- one fell swoop
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