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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tricky call" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a decision or judgment that is difficult to make due to uncertainty or complexity.
Example: "Deciding whether to invest in the startup was a tricky call, given the market conditions."
Alternatives: "a difficult decision" or "a tough choice".
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It is always a tricky call.
Relevance in previous election results can be a tricky call to make.
As I pointed out then, it's a tricky call, and it's not been used much by Plus callers.
It will be a tricky call for the hierarchy as will sorting out England's best batting lineup.
"It's sort of a tricky call when you start going down that road of who is legitimate," Aaron said.
That's a tricky call, because the Lib Dems would have been attacked for switching leaders, but I'm not so sure Clegg is right.
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Health is a trickier call.
By using "cleavage for a purpose", she writes, is "a trickier call, because it raises the question of when a breast is just a breast, and when it becomes something else entirely".
It was a very tricky call for the team at the Checkers restaurant in Wales to make.
But if they're proving tricky, call a mate over who's handy with the quick reactions.
We are all familiar with the cliche that an author's house is at its cleanest just before they embark on a new book, but timewasting doesn't just happen before we embark on a new creative endeavour, it happens before we have to do the washing up, before we have a tricky phone call to make and most often before we go to bed, and then again before we get out of bed.
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