phone up meaning

phone up sb • phone sb up • phone up to telephone someone and speak to them:
▪ I kept phoning her up, asking to see her and the children.
▪ Jonathan has just phoned up to say that he'll be late.
▪ I phoned up the police and told them about it, but they said there was nothing they could do.
■ SIMILAR TO: call up, ring up BrE

• phone so up:    [American slang]to ...
• -phone:     /-fōn/  &nbs ...
• on the phone:    [American slang]Go ...

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1. we have got people phoning up from all over the world.
2. we've got people phoning up from all over the world
3. who wouldput a phone up on a pole ? aww
4. he did say it nicely .-he got a cell phone up in there too
5. -he did say it nicely .-he got a cell phone up in there too