24. Call at | (visit a place to meet) I called at the residence of my boss yesterday. |
25. Call for | (necessary, require) For the unity of the country discipline among the people is called for. |
26. Call in/call out | (send for help) The police were called in without delay by the residents. |
27. Call off | (suspend or abandon) We decided to call off the strike. |
28. Call on | (go and visit a person) It is a tradition for the Prime Minister to call on the President. |
29. Call out | (ask to come for help) The National Guards has been called out. |
30. Call up | (to telephone, recall) Many of my friends called me up to congratulate me. |
31. Call upon | (appeal, exhort) He was called upon to prove the correctness of the press reports. |
32. Carry away by | (lose control) On bearing the news of his success he was carried away by joy. |
33. Carry on | (continue) Now it is difficult to carry on this business in the teeth of stiff competition. |
34. Carry out | (implement, obey, execute) it is not likely that your father will carry out the threat of disinheriting you. |
35. Cast away | (throw away as useless) We usually give our servants the old clothes which we cast away. |
36. Cast down | (dejecte4 down cast) Now |
a | days he is cast down as a result of his failure in the examination. |
37. Cast off | (release, remove) Organization must cast off old fashioned practices in order to survive. |
38. Catch up with | (make up for deficiency, overtake) He remained ill for many days but caught up with the pending work very soon. |
39. Come about | (happen) It is not good that such an unfortunate accident came about. |
40. Come across | (meet by chance) I came across my old friend in the market yesterday. |
41. Come by | (get) How have you come by such a precious diamond? |
42. Come of | (belong to) Recta comes of a family of freedom fighters. |
43. Come off | (take place as arranged, fade, get separated) I was surprised to see that plaster had come off the walls. |
44. Come over | get over, overcome) You can come over your problems by honest means. |
45. Come round | (agree, recover from illness) My father at first refused to let me continue study but he came round in the end. |
46. Come upon | (come across, get by chance) My friend came upon the evidence just by chance. |
47. Cope with | (manage) They coped with all their problems cheerfully. |
48. Cut down | (curtail, reduce) Since you are out of job these days, you must cut down your expenditure. |
49. Cut off | (discontinue, die, remove) Gas supplies have now been cut off |
50. (Be) Cut out for | (suitable) He is cut out for an administrative career. |
51. Cut out | (to take a piece from the whole) He cut out a piece of the cake and put it in my plate. |
52. Cut up | (distressed, cut into small pieces) She was cut up because she had been scolded by her teacher. |