trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC ● Jun. 25, 2012
The telephone squealed shrilly; it was a trunk call from Nemesis.
From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki
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 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
"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
