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To order into service; to summon into service.
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The Governor called out the National Guard.
Submitted on August 23, 2012
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- take away
- take down
- take off
- take over
- take to
- throw out
- tumble to
- turn into
- walk into
- zero in on
- zonk out
- a cut above
- after the fact
- as good as one's word
- at heart
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- be all ears
- been there, done that
- breath of fresh air
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- dead as a doorknob
- down to the wire
- fat of the land
- from cover to cover
- get one's act together
- get one's claws into
- get somebody's goat
- go out of one's way
- gold mine
- hand in hand
- hang a ralph
- have a heart
- have other fish to fry
- have truck with
- honest-to-goodness
- in a nutshell
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- nugget of truth
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