Phone Phrases

Phrases

• Alarm bells began to ring
• Answer the call
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• At your beck and call
• Beyond the call of duty
• Blackberry jam
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Bust digits
• Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen song)
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Call girl
• Call in a favour
• Call into question
• Call it a day
• Call it quits
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Call of nature
• Call of the wild
• Call the shots
• Call time on
• Call to account
• Call to action
• Call to arms
• Call to mind
• Call up
• Call your bluff
• Cat call
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Close call
• Cold calling
• Conference call
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Contact sport
• Courtesy call
• Curtain call
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Doesn't ring a bell
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't call us, we'll call you
• Don't ring us, we'll ring you
• Don't touch that dial
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg movie)
• ET phone home (ET)
• First contact
• First time caller
• Get more (T-Mobile advertising slogan)
• Give me a call
• Give someone a bell
• Give us a call
• Going beyond the call (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Good call
• Hands free
• Hanging on the telephone
• Hello moto (Motorola advertising slogan)
• Hold the phone
• Hold the ring
• How are you? (Vodafone advertising slogan)
• I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Elton John song)
• I call them like I see them
• I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (The Beatles song lyric)
• In the hands of the receiver
• In the ring
• Instant messaging
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• It's time to call it a day
• Judgement call
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)

• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• La Poeta de Ring (Nickname of Laura Serrano)
• Last call
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Irving Berlin song)
• Make contact
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Make yourself heard (Ericsson advertising slogan)
• Mobile blogging
• On the blower
• Pay a call
• Pay as you go
• People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Person to person
• Phantom ring
• Phone a friend (A catchphrase from Who Wants to be a Millionaire)
• Phone home
• Phone in sick
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Please hold the line
• Reach out and touch someone (American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
• Ring down the curtain
• Ring false
• Ring fencing
• Ring hollow
• Ring in sick
• Ring in your ears
• Ring off
• Ring off the hook
• Ring out the old and ring in the new
• Ring round
• Ring rusty
• Ring the changes
• Ring up
• Roll call
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
• Single point of contact
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Bob Dylan song)
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• The Colgate ring of confidence (Colgate Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• The call of the wild
• The future's bright, the future's Orange (Orange mobile phones advertising slogan)
• The most human handset (DiStar advertising slogan)
• The point of contact (Sprint advertising slogan)
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (Sidney Poitier)
• Throw your hat into the ring
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Too close to call
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Upwardly mobile
• Voice mail
• Waiting by the phone
• Wake up call
• Wake-up call
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• Welcome to our network (3 Mobile advertising slogan)
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Where you at? (Boost Mobile advertising slogan)
• Work the phone
• You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon song)

Related

• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• ET phone home (ET)
• Hold the phone
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Phone a friend (A catchphrase from Who Wants to be a Millionaire)
• Phone home
• Phone in sick
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Waiting by the phone
• Work the phone