ring off the hook

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ring off the hook

Fig. [for a telephone] to ring incessantly and repeatedly. What a busy day! The telephone has been ringing off the hook all day long. The telephone has been ringing off the hook ever since the ad appeared in the paper.

See also: hook, ring

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Phones ring off the hook, literature piles up alongside maps of canvassing routes and in a few hours Caroline Kennedy, daughter of that most iconic of presidents, John F Kennedy, will drop by to wish everyone good luck. Nobody is taking victory for granted; SUSAN DALGETY, a former adviser ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) They believe what the advertising sale rep tells them, that as soon as their ads go live, their phone will ring off the hook and their inbox will be filled with floods of incoming emails. How to Advertise without Spending $1 on Advertising by Lei Wang / Advertising, marketing, public relations community Likewise, if your promotions make the phones ring off the hook, but the people you have answering the lines are poorly trained or unskilled, you? Inept Call Handling Is Marketing's Leaky Pail by Dr. Gary Goodman / Business community			rig up right right and left right as rain right away right down alley right in the kisser right off the bat right on right on time Right on! right to right to do right-hand man right-of-way right-on rightly rile up ring ring a bell ring around ring back ring hollow ring in ears ring in the new year ring off the hook ring out ring out the old ring the bell ring the changes ring the curtain down ring the curtain up ring true ring up ring with ringer rinky-dink rinse rinse down rinse mouth out rinse off rinse out rinse out of rinse with riot riot of color rip rip apart rip away rip down rip in half			Ring No Reply ring of color Ring of death Ring of Destiny Ring of Destruction Ring of Djinni Summoning Ring of Faith Ring of Fire Ring of Fire Ring of Fire Ring of Flame Ring of Frost Ring of Heath Ring of HeroQuest Narrators Ring of Honor Ring of Illusion Ring of integer Ring of integer Ring of integer Ring of integer Ring of operators ring of ossicles Ring of Polymorph Control Ring of regeneration Ring of Teleport Control Ring of the Nibelung Ring of the Nibelungs Ring Of Wealth ring off ring off the hook Ring Opening Metathesis Ring Opening Multibranching Polymerization Ring opening polymerization Ring Optical Packet Network Ring Ousel ring ousels ring out ring out ring out ring out ring out ring out ring out the old ring ouzel ring ouzels Ring Pair Corrosion Monitor Ring Parameter Server Ring parrot Ring Partition Algorithm Ring Partition Design ring permutation ring plain Ring plover Ring Plus Aqua Limited Ring Politischer Jugend ring power transmission line ring precipitin test ring precipitin test ring precipitin test ring precipitin test

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