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Idioms and Phrases
Formally open a meeting; also, bid people to obey the rules. For example, The chairman used his gavel to call everyone to order , or The judge called the spectators to order and threatened to make them leave . [Early 1800s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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