call on

[call on] or [call upon] {v.}

1. To make a call upon; visit.

* /Mr. Brown called on an old friend while he was in the city./

2. To ask for help.

* /He called on a friend to give him money for the busfare to his home./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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