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pay a call on

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pay a call on someone
to visit someone. Grandmother always paid us a call on Sundays. Let's pay a call on Mary at the hospital.
See also: call, pay

pay a call on somebody/something
to go somewhere to see someone or something The president paid a call on US troops stationed in the region on Sunday.
Related vocabulary: pay (somebody/something) a visit
See also: call, pay


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Bast, 'I have to pay a call on some friends,' and Mrs.
For they were to pick up Miss Bartlett at Summer Street, where she had been dropped as the carriage went down, to pay a call on Mr.
 
 
 
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