call to order

[call to order] {v. phr.}

1. To open (a meeting) formally.

* /The chairman called the committee to order./

* /The president pounded with his gavel to call the convention to order./

2. To warn not to break the rules of a meeting.

* /The judge called the people in the court room to order when they talked too loud./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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