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Definition of the day : « call-down »
- As in slight : noun insult, disrespect
- Never gives me any call-down for shuntin' him off the way I did and makin' him miss most of the show.
- Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
- We had a call-down from our Captain and have been looking for a chance to apologize.
- Extract from : « The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest » by Margaret Vandercook
- He got a call-down for that accident—and this matter on top of it has made him sore.
- Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day
- Throw out your chest and look happy when you get a call-down.
- Extract from : « The Khaki Boys at Camp Sterling » by Josephine Chase
- He waited at home and gave me a love of a call-down for my dissipation.
- Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
- To do Van Sluyd justice, however, he took the call-down in good part and knuckled to at the practical end of his training.
- Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler