cliché Do not be in further contact with us regarding your application/submission/inquiry/etc., we will contact you if we wish to proceed further (generally meaning that no such contact should be expected). Thank you for your interesting submission to our fiction department. We'll think it over for now—don't call us, we'll call you.I thought I had a good shot at this job until the recruiter said, "Don't call us, we'll call you" after the interview.The guy who fielded your call said, "Don't call us, we'll call you"? Well, that's not a good sign!
(informal) used for indicating that the speaker has no interest in meeting somebody, taking something that somebody is offering, etc: I had hoped she might want me to work with her, but her attitude was one of ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you.’
sent. a formulaic expression given to job applicants who have just interviewed or auditioned for a job. Stupendous, Gloria, just stupendous. What glamour and radiance! Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
We’ll let you know when a decision—probably an unfavorable one—has been made. This formulaic brush-off dates from the mid-1940s and probably comes from the theater, ending an audition for a part. It was soon broadened to many areas where a candidate is rejected (for a job, political office, athletic team, and so on). A newer version of the theatrical rejection is Thank you very much, said without a hint of the gratitude implied by the words. It, too, may become a cliché.
In some cases, that's your only shot, especially in newsrooms where they tell you: don't call us, we'll call you. Your package should include a cover letter, a resume and work samples.
"I plan to be quite tough on them," she pledges, which includes her own signature line, dismissing also-rans with a glib, "Don't call us, we'll call you." Hey, some of us felt the same way about her after "Supergirl."
Karl Lagerfeld, designer for one of the most famous of all, Chanel, says: "Claudia is part of another fashion, another spirit, another time." Translation: Don't call us, we'll call you.
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