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call off

verb
  1. To recall; to cancel or call a halt to. (transitive) · If you want me to call off the dog, then get off my land.· After four months, the police called off the search for the missing boy.
  2. To telephone in one's notice of a day's absence from work. (intransitive)
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“I recommend, sir, that you take a cab, call off your spaniel who is scratching at my front door, and proceed to Waterloo to meet Sir Henry Baskerville.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 29 · C1

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