be on the phone

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be using the telephone

In the movies · 118

• Will you shut up? I’m on the phone.The Usual Suspects1995
• Lorraine, get my wife on the phone, please.No Way Out1987
• D you re tickling me with that fake beardCreed II2018
• There's no phone.The Fall Guy2024
• On the phone.Vicky Cristina Barcelona2008
• He's on the phone. He's on the phone.Crazy Rich Asians2018
• On this phone?Space Jam: A New Legacy2021
• Yeah, you know, they probably don't want me to be on the phone on my first day, so...Ambulance2022

From the same entry

• phone in
• phone in

More idioms

• be supposed to do
• be nothing to do with
• a bit of a
• at the same time
• as a matter of fact
• be sorry for
• all of a sudden
• be on side
• keep an eye on
• to tell the truth
• you know
• on your way