Translation for 'wake-up call' from English to Portuguese

wake-up call

ligação {f} de despertar

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to wake up

acordar

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to wake sb. up

acordar alguém

wake

esteira {f} [rastro]aviat.náut.

to wake sb.

acordar alguém

to call

chamar

phone call

telefonema {m}

to call [Am.]

telefonar

to call [telephone]

ligar [telefonar]

to call the police

chamar a polícia

Let's call it a day.

Chega por hoje.

desperate times call for desperate measures [idiom]

unverified para grandes males, grandes remédios

up

para cima {adv}

to go up

subir [ir para cima]

to start up

começar

to tidy up

unverified pôr em ordem

to stand up

unverified levantar-se

to speed up

acelerar

make-up

maquilhagem {f} [Port.]cosm.

to play up

destacar

salientar

• He wrote a book titled "While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call to the Post-9/11 World", and supported Obama's reelection in 2012.
• However, Summers cautioned that the result was a "wake up call for elites everywhere" and called for "responsible nationalism" in response to simmering public sentiment.
• The earthquake proved to be a major wake-up call for Japanese disaster prevention authorities.
• The band also appeared in a McDonald's advertising campaign called "This Is Your Wake-Up Call" featuring the band.
• He ordered the publication of a newspaper called "Despertador Americano" ("American Wake Up Call").

• He hoped that it would be a wake-up call and an inspiration to other young Italian composers.
• It fell to the third president of the Council Captain John Smith to deliver a bold and much-needed wake-up call in response to the investors in London, demanding practical laborers and craftsmen who could help make the colony more self-sufficient.
• "The Vanishing Jew: A Wake-Up Call From the Book of Esther" by Michael Eisenberg looks at the Megilla from the perspective of economic philosophy and the struggle for money, power and control.
• On March 19, 2009, "Qué Bonita Bandera" was played as part of the wake-up call for Space Shuttle Mission STS-119, in honor of Mission Specialist Joe Acaba, whose ancestry is Puerto Rican.
• Melanie has said that she meant for the divorce to be a wake-up call for Brian, and they were still living together at the time of Brian's passing, but he was banished to the basement.

• as comparisons were drawn with his previous embarrassment over the US use of Diego Garcia for extraordinary rendition without British knowledge, with one commentator describing the affair as "a wake-up call" and "the latest example of American governments ignoring Britain when it comes to US interests in British territories abroad".
• Keyes hosted a radio call-in show, "The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-Up Call", from 1994 until 1998 on WCBM.
• was used as the Space Shuttle wake-up call on day 11 of STS-106.
• "GMA Wake Up Call" is a pre-morning show hosted by Ginger Zee.
• It was intended as a liberal-nationalist wake-up call for the people of the Philippines.

• On 2 July 2010, the band released an EP titled "Tarred and Feathered", which covered "Civilization's Dying" by Zero Boys, "Nasty Secretary" by Joy Rider & Avis Davis and "Early Morning Wake Up Call" by Flash and the Pan.
• a German "military wake-up call", literally "(a)rise, (a)rise") [...] is the fourth studio album by Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.