trunk call

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That would make it a trunk call - get it?

From Children's BBC • Jun. 25, 2012

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)

“There is a trunk call for you,” a voice said.

From The Moving Finger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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 trunk call," he said over his shoulder to the departing commissioner, "it may be something interesting."

From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Wallace, Edgar