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call back

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1. call back - Noun

2. call back - Verb

Meaning

the recall of an employee after a layoff

a return call

recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection

summon to return

return or repeat a telephone call

cause to be returned

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He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; He will cleanse the world from evil, now washing it away with water-floods, now burning it out with fiercest fire, or again expelling it by war and pestilence. Apuleius

It is very difficult to tuck a bugle call back into a bugle. Pandora's Box is a one-way proposition. You can turn a pig into sausage, but not sausage into pig. Broken eggs stay broken. Robert A. Heinlein

O Bells of San Blas in vain Ye call back the Past again; The Past is deaf to your prayer! Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorry, I'm not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month. Jack Vance

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back. Ken Follett

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn't need no philosopher to tell him that. Orson Scott Card

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