I can't imagine them missing her Aunt Rose Abbott's service or at least calling in with their status.
You should have seen the look on her face when she came a calling in her antique duds and found me there!
Class loyalties run deep, and he called me up about twenty years ago and said he was calling in a favor my dad owed him.
They're calling in a strike.
As the companies grew in size and improved their discipline, it was seen by the Italian nobles that this kind of service offered a good career for men of spirit, who had learned the use of arms. To leave so powerful and profitable a calling in the hands of foreigners seemed both dangerous and uneconomical.
