on call

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   available for work if necessary, especially in an emergency

   I gotta go because I'm on call tonight.

   I can't be on call anymore.

In the movies · 5

• I gotta go because I'm on call tonight.The Day After Tomorrow2004
• I can't be on call anymore.Zodiac2007
• static cracklingF92021
• Come on, call.Be Here Now2015
• Are there priests on call?The Royal Tenenbaums2001
• Well, back on call.A Simple Plan1998
• Go on, call the cops!Dinner in America2020
• Oh, no. The old man's on call.Rushmore1998

Learn it in full scenes

• Zodiac2007
  • Darlene Ferrin's Last Drive
  • The Zodiac Confession Call
  • Zodiac's Cipher Reaches the Chronicle
• Be Here Now2015
  • Andy Shows His Kids the Sword
  • Andy Wins the Role of Spartacus
  • Andy Whitfield's Cancer Returns

From the same entry

• call bluff
• call into play
• call into question
• call it a day
• call it quits
• call names
• call the shots
• call a spade a spade
• call time
• call to account
• call to order
• on the carpet

More idioms

• on second thoughts
• be nothing to
• at ease
• a step ahead
• a straight face
• all things considered
• cut corners
• to start with
• drop the ball
• breathe down neck
• no harm done
• lord