call someone's number

Meaning: (American football)To be assigned to carry the ball at the start of a play.2002, Rich Wolfe,Kurt Warner: And the Last Shall Be First,→ISBN, page229:So on the first play, I asked the quarterback tocall my numberon an end sweep.2011, W. S. Gaines,Blood on a Pew: Overcoming Tragedy Through the Truth of Eternity,→ISBN:Billy was shocked; he didn't get that call once during spring practice, and now, in the spring game, they want tocall his numberon the first play.2015, Mark O'Connell,The Good Father: On Men, Masculinity, and Life in the Family,→ISBN, page73:Now he told me that when the coach had diagrammed plays, he would move to the back of the huddle, in the hope that the coach wouldn'tcall his number.; (by extension,idiomatic)Tofocuson someone, asking them toprove themselves.1969, Annmarie Hauck Walsh,The urban challenge to government:I am glad to have that comment, Sir. I think you have aboutcalled our numberon that.2001, Stuart Kaufman,Engine Parts,→ISBN, page60:"I'm sure about this one," I said. "I'm starting the preparations." “Ok, I'mcalling your numberon this one. I got your word, and everyone else is out of the way.”2014August 13, Sam Wolfson, “Is the growth in nitrous oxide misuse a laughing matter?”, inThe Guardian:People have certainly died from laughing gas,” he says. “They can get into serious trouble using tanks and masks and they certainly shouldn’t be driving while doing it and should be careful round rivers and swimming pools,” he says. “But the second you get into saying people using nitrous in balloons is a massive issue, people willcall your numberon that, and they’re right. It’s a concern that it’s going up, the numbers of people using are quite stunning, but it’s not the most dangerous thing by a mile.”; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seecall,‎number.2005, Wanjiru Waithaka,The Unbroken Spirit,→ISBN, page218:Hecalled her numberon his cell phone.

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