2010年11月24日 星期三

call Apple home, call one's own

Some RIM Sales Staff Now Call Apple Home
Apple isn't only poaching corporate customers from BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, it's hiring RIM's sales people. In the past 18 months, at least five members of RIM's enterprise-sales team have left the company to join Apple.


call one's own
Claim or regard something as one's possession or under one's control, as in Victorian wives had almost nothing to call their own. This expression, dating from about 1600, today is often used in a negative context, as in the example. It also appears in can't call one's time one's own,常恨此身非所有 which dates from the 18th century and means one spends much of one's time in someone else's service, as in The hours in this job are terrible; I can't call my time my own.

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