Call+off
21call off the dogs — verb a) To ease up on after inflicting great punishment. Doing the opponents an obvious favor, the football coach decided to call off the dogs early after his team was up 56 0. b) During a one sided sports contest, to remove the first string unit …
22call off the dogs — tell your friends to stop harassing me Okay, I ll pay what I owe you. But call off the dogs! …
23call off the dogs — to cause people to stop attacking or criticizing someone. It s time to call off the dogs and let her get back to doing her job …
24call off — Synonyms and related words: KO, call over, call the roll, cancel, census, complete, count, delete, dispose of, drop, drop the curtain, end off, enumerate, expunge, extinguish, finalize, finish, fold up, foliate, get it over, get over with, get… …
25call off — transitive verb Date: 1633 1. to draw away ; divert < her attention was called off by a new arrival > 2. cancel < call the trip off > …
26call off — cancel, postpone They called off the concert because the lead singer is sick …
27call off — cancel The game was called off because of the rain …
28To call off — Call Call (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG. kall[=o]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry ein to speak, sing, Skr. gar …
29call off — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. cancel, postpone, discontinue, halt; see cancel 2 , stop 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. cancel, postpone, *scrub, abort, *kill. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To decide not to go ahead with (something previously… …
30call off — v. cancel an event; cancel a meeting or appointment; postpone indefinitely; order a dog to stop attacking a person; order a person to stop attacking another person …
