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Srdjan Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

"comes to call, close to call , rule vs reign"

ciao,

just recently i have met words "comes to call", often can be heard in songs or be a part of a headline. Relating to the previous, "come to call".

I have found one in a book as :
" Nixon saw the race as still too close to call".
or

Feel , Robbie Williams
"I know that life wont break me
when I come to call she wont forsake me
I’m loving angels instead"[COLOR="Red"][/COLOR][COLOR="#ff0000"][/COLOR]

also a headline:
"Dick Cheney Comes To Call"

the second question: rule vs. reign

" Ike(Eisenhower) had long been sensitive to suggestions that he had reigned rather than ruled."

thanx in adv.
Srdjan
  

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I read many times your post Srdjan, yet I don't understand what you want to know... The usage? Examples?

  • I read many times your post Srdjan, yet I don't understand what you want to know...
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I read many times your post Srdjan, yet I don't understand what you want to know...

The usage? Examples?

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Srdjanciao, just recently i have met words "comes to call", often can be heard in songs or be a part of a headline. Relating to the previous, "come to call". I have found one in a book as : " Nixon saw the race as still too close to call". or Feel , Robbie Williams "I know that life wont break me when I come to call she wont forsake me I’m loving angels instead"[COLOR="Re
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to YoHf:, sorry.. hoped you will understand I was pondering over the meanings these expressions have.

to Tagalong1966: yeah, I would agree on what you have said.

come-to-call meaning remains somewhat ambiguous.

D. Cheney comes to call (Can it be seen as he has been asked for a responsibility because of some unspoken issues and so on ?)
definitively to concede s

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