it's someone's call

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

In it, then-C.I.A. Director David Petraeus, having been given an opportunity to read and sign off on a document that has been neutered by the editing process, writes, "Frankly, I'd just as soon not use this, then…" before shrugging and acknowledging it's someone else's call.

"Every time the phone rings now, I worry it's someone calling to tell me my family's been killed," Lazhari said.

But when it's coming from within our own nation -- when it's someone who's white, we tend to call it something else".

Stop being someone's last call girl and waiting for a guy to pick you at the end of the night.

For most of the past seven years, it has actually been someone's home, occupied by a vagrant called Tachowa Covington, who turned the interior into a comfortably furnished abode, complete with carpets, a stove and a television.

If they lost, it would be someone else's call, but who knew what the mood would be?

The charity believes the snake, which the homeowners have called Kevin, is someone's missing pet and hope to reunite it.

(Other variables, like tee locations and pin placements, are someone else's call).

When the phone rings, it is sometimes someone's wife calling.

Unable to ascertain where the man's friends are, someone starts to call 999, but then decides it would be quicker to take back him back down South Road, where more ambulances are arriving.

He's someone whom Stephen Colbert, Stewart's erstwhile Comedy Central compatriot, might call a "friend of the show".