to call someone over the telephone

to ask, beg, request, entreat, appeal, solicit

aid, rescue, relief, help, assistance, support

(dialectal, Kagoshima) aid, rescue, relief, help, assistance, support

to be helpful, to be of assistance

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

成り掛ける: to be on the verge, to be on the brink.