Telephone Phrases

Phrases

• Alarm bells began to ring
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• As clear as a bell
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• As sound as a bell
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
• Bell the cat
• Bell, book and candle
• Bust digits
• Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen song)
• Cold calling
• Conference call
• Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
• Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
• Courtesy call
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doesn't ring a bell
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't ring us, we'll ring you
• Don't touch that dial
• ET phone home (ET)
• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
• For Whom The Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper movie)
• Give me a call
• Give someone a bell
• Had your bell rung
• Hanging on the telephone
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Hold the phone
• Hold the ring
• 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
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Its for Yoo-hoo! (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• La Poeta de Ring (Nickname of Laura Serrano)
• Let your fingers do the walking (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Mobile blogging
• Number unobtainable
• On the blower
• On the horn
• Party line
• 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)
• 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
• Saved by the bell
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
• 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
• Telling bone
• The Colgate ring of confidence (Colgate Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• The Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash song)
• The future's bright, the future's Orange (Orange mobile phones advertising slogan)
• The most human handset (DiStar advertising slogan)
• Think outside the bun (Taco Bell advertising slogan)
• Throw your hat into the ring
• Upwardly mobile
• Waiting by the phone
• Wake up call
• Warning bell
• Welcome to our network (3 Mobile advertising slogan)
• Where you at? (Boost Mobile advertising slogan)
• Work the phone
• Yo quiero Taco Bell (Taco Bell advertising slogan)