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 Translation for 'wake-up call' from English to Russian
NOUN   a wake-up call | wake-up calls
побудка {ж} [сигнал]wake-up call
тревожный звонок {м} [перен.]wake-up call [fig.]
Partial Matches
разбудить кого-л. [сов.]to wake sb. up
будить кого-л.to wake sb.
вызов {м}call
девушка {ж} по вызову [проститутка, вызываемая по телефону]call girl
телеком.
видеозвонок {м}
video call
требовать [+gen.] [несов.]to call for
(телефонный) звонок {м}phone call
называть [несов.]to call [name]
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телеком.
междугородный / международный телефонный разговор {м}
long-distance call
отменить [сов.]to call off [cancel, postpone]
телеком.
междугородный / междугородний (телефонный) разговор {м}
trunk call [esp. Br.] [dated]
На сегодня хватит.Let's call it a day.
наверх {adv}up
unverified разжигать огоньfire up
копить [несов.]to save up
unverified поднимать вопросto bring up
unverified давать приют (гостям)to put up
unverified разоблачать [несов.]to show up
unverified замедлитьto hold up
Руки вверх!Hands up!
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Usage Examples English
  • 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.
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