Receiver Phrases

Phrases

• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• ET phone home (ET)
• Hanging on the telephone
• Hold the phone
• In the hands of the receiver
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• On the receiving end
• 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)
• Reach out and touch someone (American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Waiting by the phone
• Work the phone