call to attention

call someone to attention

to demand that someone assume the formal military stance of attention. The officer called the platoon to attention. The sergeant called us to attention.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zdenko	-	Slovak, Slovene, Croatian
Flamur	-	Albanian
Ivanka	-	Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene
Felicyta	fe-lee-TSI-tah	Polish
Josef	YO-zef (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech
Celestino	the-le-STEE-no (Spanish), se-le-STEE-no (Latin American Spanish), che-le-STEE-no (Italian)	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese