Call in

I was too unwell to work yesterday so I called in sick.

The hoaxer called in a bomb threat.

Near-synonym: call on (transitive)

I'll call in this afternoon to pick up my prescription.

The government called in the army to deal with the riots.

By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].