Timeline for "It's up to you to make the call"
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 8:58 | comment | added | Joshua Robison | I wonder if the expression came about due to lack of technology. A referee would have to cry his decision out loud enough for everyone to hear from far away? | |
| Mar 14, 2016 at 1:59 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @medica - I wonder why it was upvoted as well. Makes no sense. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 22:55 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @HotLicks - I'm woefully ignorant of most sports (well, all of them, I believe), so I can't comment. I did state it was a guess. I wonder why it was up voted? | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 22:02 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @medica - "Make the call" refers to choosing a strategy, not something an umpire typically does. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 9:20 | history | protected | user140086 | ||
| Mar 13, 2016 at 1:27 | comment | added | Jesse M | Is this actually an idiom? Call means to cry out, make noise, etc. in a literal or figurative sense in nearly all the definitions I found. In this case it's a formal pronouncement or decision. | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 23:24 | answer | added | Hot Licks | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 31, 2013 at 1:30 | comment | added | Joshua Robison | Why then does the umpire use the expression make a call? Why call? | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 11:11 | history | edited | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2013 at 8:28 | answer | added | sotondolphin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 6:56 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | My guess (which I can't confirm) is that this is another idiom taken from baseball, a reference to the umpire making the call (often connoting a difficult choice between two things), for example whether it's a ball or a strike. | |
| Dec 30, 2013 at 6:40 | history | asked | Joshua Robison | CC BY-SA 3.0 |