wake up

I was in that mode when I took care of my mother, and it made me realize that the 70% of adults in the U.S. who have no estate plan to speak of needed something of a wake-up call to get them to see how important it is to get your ducks in a row.

In early July, Morgan Stanley received its first wake-up call.

“That was a big wake-up call — we had 1 in 3 folks in 2020 be food insecure,” de la Haye said.

"Let no-one be mistaken: the theft of the crown jewels is a resounding wake-up call," said the court's president, Pierre Moscovici.

Last month's spectacular Louvre heist, in which robbers made off with some of France's crown jewels, was a "deafening wake-up call" for museum security, the head of France's highest audit institution said Thursday.