call me
829
1.3
- idiom
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- Can you please call me back?
- people call me
- call me and say
Or why didn't you call me since you were in town?
- Or why didn't you call me since you were in town?
- And that same night, Tim calls me for all of us to hang out.
- And the spinach, three days later she calls me and goes, it's gone.
- Somebody kept calling me from Africa, bro.
- I will if you call me, she said.
- And then the next day, Bioe called me from Buenos Aires.
- So Jose called me and said hey.
- And so my mother is calling me to go and say goodbye to him.
- And then he called me after I got back to Chicago.
- And and he called me up once he called me.
- At the end of the interview, he called me and he wasn't.
- What do you do if your first inclination is call me, that's not the deal.
Examples
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Can you call me as soon as you get this?
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You can call me Sarah.
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Tell your mum I said hello, and your brother to call me.
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OK, How about you call me Brandon?
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But you can call me Carol.
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Call me after he goes to work tomorrow.
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Or why didn't you call me since you were in town?
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Call me tomorrow.
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If you need help, just call me.
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Whenever you're free, please call me for updates.
Synonyms
294
1.0
To call someone on the phone
204
1.0
To call someone by telephone
20
1.0
To call someone to speak with them
1
2.2
To phone someone
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
call + me
The phrase is a straightforward verb+object imperative: 'call' (to contact by phone) + 'me' yields the request 'contact me by telephone', so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is common in English and other languages, so an average B1 learner who knows the words would understand it.
Etymology
Call me comes from the older use of call meaning 'to shout someone's name' or 'to visit' someone. When the telephone became common, people used call for a phone call, so call me now means 'to contact you by telephone'.