call the turn
Example Sentences
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New Dealers Pearson & Allen began at $25 a week apiece, were soon cozy enough with the Democrats to call the turn of New Deal cards.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nixon has often called diplomacy his "strong suit," the field in which he will "call the turn," and does not need another John Foster Dulles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many critics call the turn by glibly referring to The Sea Gull as a tragedy of frustration.
From Time Magazine Archive
I 'll hide behind 'em and listen; if he don't tell the story just like he did to me, why, we 'll call the turn on him.
From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds
Fellow said to me one day, 'How's it come, Thomas, you most always call the turn?'
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod
