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call off

Separable

Cancel something

They called off the match because of the rain.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.

Related idiom

Read the meaning and origin of a related expression on The Village Idiom.