call up something

call up something
call up (something) 1. to find and bring information to a computer screen.

Your computer may freeze when you try to call up the file.

2. to cause something to be remembered.

The attacks called up thoughts of how Americans reacted after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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