multiple switchboard
Telephony (now historical )
noun
A manual switchboard in which each subscriber's circuit is repeated so as to make it accessible to each operator.
Origin
Late 19th century.
- be the best of friends
- be the best (or greatest) thing since sliced bread
- be the case
- be the death of
- be the despair of
- bet-hedging
- be the end
- Bethel
- be the limit
- be (the) living proof that (or of)
- Bethel Park
- be the making of someone
- be the marrying kind
- be the most
- be the pits
- be there for
- Bethesda
- be the shit
- be the shizzle
- be the spit (or the dead spit) of
- be thick on the ground
- be thick (or thin) on the ground
- bethink
- Bethlehem
- be thrown back on