单词 | phone tag |
释义 | > as lemmasphone tag phone tag n. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American) a situation in which two people attempting to communicate by telephone repeatedly miss one another, often involving one or both people leaving a message asking to be called back; = telephone tag n. at telephone n. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1982 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 2 Nov. d11/3 (advt.) Tired of Playing Phone Tag? Answering systems by Code-A-Phone..Dictaphone. Business Machines, Inc. 1984 Communications News Oct. 60/3 (heading) Added line cuts phone tag... Simply adding two lines goes a great way toward eliminating telephone tag. 1997 B. Wagner I'm losing You (1998) 106 Donny cannot be of help; we've been playing phone tag and now he is in South Africa. < as lemmas |
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