off the hook
If you leave the phone off the hook, you do not put it back correctly and it will not ring.
If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation:
John's agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Communications - by telephone
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- alarm call
- bell
- break
- break up
- call sb up
- cold-calling
- conference call
- connection
- cut
- give sb a buzz idiom
- hash
- hold
- put sb through
- put sth down 1
- telecommuting
- tinkle
- top-up card
- transfer
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