trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC • Jun. 25, 2012
He had never stayed in the house before, and he had booked his room by a trunk call from London.
From The Shrieking Pit by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
Please get me Stevenish one-three-seven," he said, "it's a trunk call.
From The Yellow Streak by Williams, Valentine
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
