call out

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been familiar with this "new" sense since at least 1970.
> It means "challenge (to a fight); hence, challenge; call to account."

IMO, Jon's incisive mind has pierced to the heart of the matter.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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