call down
verb1
Historical To lower (a price, value) by official proclamation.
2
To bring (punishment, condemnation etc.) upon someone, as from above.
- I shall call down God's wrath upon you!
3
Obsolete To call for (a speaker) to stop speaking and sit down.
4
Canada, US, Colloquial To reprimand or insult (someone) severely.
- He will call down his secretary if the latter's trousers are not well creased or his shoes not polished to a sparkle.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 211:
- Related terms
- call down on the carpet, call in