call to account

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Hold answerable, as in One day soon we'll be called to account for the child's behavior: [Mid-1500s]

Challenge or contest, as in The IRS is bound to call us to account on these deductions. [First half of 1800s]

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But his account of a dissident plot involving Gambian expats using U.S. weapons is similar to what Faal told the FBI.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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Of course, considerations of weight have to be taken into account, but the more mould round the roots the better.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
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And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift