call to account
Idioms-
Hold answerable, as in One day soon we'll be called to account for the child's behavior : [Mid-1500s]
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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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They don’t return for a bow, as if this had not been a performance but a call to account.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
How something can be prideful and at the same time call to account the nation that you’re writing about.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
“I mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive,” Bush said, “and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2018
Mr Bush said: "Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2017
There are those who frisk playfully along, taking the good things of life as they come—"the more the better"—whom, as children, it is hard to call to account.
From The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart
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