trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC ● Jun. 25, 2012
A financial editor of a responsible journal does not talk freely with any unknown man who rings him up on a hasty trunk call.
From Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg
In fairness to the Postal authorities he should have admitted that it was a trunk call.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 by Various
"A trunk call," he said over his shoulder to the departing commissioner, "it may be something interesting."
From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
Then he asked the post-office for a trunk call to Paris, and after an hour's wait he was put in touch with the headquarters of the Europe Chronicle.
From Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg
