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 Rittenberg, Max
"A trunk call," he said, explaining the delay in receiving acknowledgment from the other end of the wire.
From The Daffodil Mystery by Wallace, Edgar
The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
On the third day, about two in the afternoon, I received a trunk call on the 'phone.
From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William
