trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC • Jun. 25, 2012
Now it is merely a question of a trunk call.
From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George
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 Rittenberg, Max
The telephone squealed shrilly; it was a trunk call from Nemesis.
From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki
When, twenty minutes later, Mr. Jeekes emerged from the trunk call telephone box in the club vestibule, his mouth was drooping at the corners and his hands trembled curiously.
From The Yellow Streak by Williams, Valentine
