someone, especially a new-born baby for whom you must provide food.

With three small children and hardly any money, the last thing they needed was another mouth to feed.

• call something into question
• call the shots
• call the tune
• call to account
• call to heel
• call up
• call up someone
• call up something
• call your bluff
• call your own
• calm before the storm
• camp follower
• camp out
• can count on the fingers of one hand
• can count something on the fingers of one hand
• can-do
• can do something on ear
• can do something on their ear
• can kiss goodbye
• can kiss something goodbye
• cannon fodder
• can of worms
• can on ear
• can on their ear
• can talk the hind leg off a donkey