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The phrase I learned is “call to arms” but “call to alarm” makes some sense.

Examples in the wild:

http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseW … l&ID=12185

CALL TO ALARM – Illegal Aliens

http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=1023

B. [A] Call to Alarm—Nineveh Invaded: Nineveh is warned to be ready for battle because Judah is about to be destroyed, that her capture and destruction are imminent 2:1-10

(“Call to Alarm” used several times on that page.)

http://www.readingeagle.com/re/sue_smith/15081738.asp

Less than an hour after climbing under the covers, I was awakened by a high-pitched yipping bark. It was not a sound I was familiar with and certainly sounded like a call to alarm.

In context “alarm” makes sense, but I would have written “an alarm call.”

http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEdu … eggin.html

Throughout, any quote is mustered from scientific papers that can be taken out of context to support the author’s biases along with every exaggerated fact and figure he can flnd to support is call to alarm, no matter the credibility (or lack of it) of his sources.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/peace/doc … bardo.html

It was nowhere in sight or sound. The high alert and its high anxiety induction just silently evaporated until another month or two, when the next call to alarm was sounded again, and again.

Despite the fact that in a taped speech the next day, Osama bin Laden denounced Hussein as a “socialist infidel leader,” the Administration focused on his call to arms of Iraqi Muslims if the United States invades their nation.

Note that he uses both “call to alarm” and “call to arms.”