Context:
Friend 1: Why don't you go for a second opinion. Its hightime.
Friend 2: Yes, right, I got to take a call on that.
Here is the usage "take a call" right instead of "I have to a take a decision"?
Also,
Friend 2: Yes, right, I got to make a call on that.
Here is the usage "make a call" right instead of "I have to a take a decision"?
Which is the right usage? Please clarify.
Oddly, there is a sense where "take a call" means "not decide", vaguely similar to a sense of the idiom "take a rain check". I suspect it somehow relates to umpiring in sports, but I don't know what the specific analogy would be.
It's impossible to be sure which of the several senses of "take a call" was intended in the OP's snippet, but my guess is that it meant "I need to defer the decision until I get more information (presumably from the second opinion)".
"Take a call" is a phrase specific to Indian English. It means the same thing as "make a call" which is to make a decision or a judgement.
"Take call on" means "take decision", but it's a bit informal and creates confusion to many. But those who boast of their English knowledge use this phrase a lot.
