Synonyms for pick up the phone
pick up the phone

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1. pick up the phoneverb

   Synonyms:
   pick up, pick the phone up, pick up the telephone, answer, answer the phone

   Antonyms:
   hang the phone up, hang up, hang up the phone

2. pick up the phoneverb

   To pick up the receiver of a telephone.

   Synonyms:
   answer the phone, pick up the telephone, pick up, pick the phone up, answer

   Antonyms:
   hang up the phone, hang up, hang the phone up

3. pick up the phoneverb

   To answer an incoming telephone call.

   Synonyms:
   answer, answer the phone, pick up, pick up the telephone, pick the phone up

   Antonyms:
   hang up the phone, hang the phone up, hang up

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1. James Wan:

   It was a giant puzzle that was very hard to wrap your head around, no one has faced anything as unprecedented as this. I couldn't just pick up the phone and say 'What did you do when this happened to you?'.

2. James Clapper:

   It wasn’t my place to do that, i was reporting to the then-government, the executive branch policymakers. But for me to pick up the phone and call a political candidate would not have been appropriate.

3. Sean Costello:

   They didn’t pick up the phone.

4. Superintendent Eddie Johnson:

   We’ve seen a couple of acts in this city now in a couple of months involving social media, and it just disgusts me that people would not pick up the phone and dial 911, it makes you wonder, where are we going – what are we doing as a society?

5. Nick Beaton:

   I tell you I absolutely lost it this morning at home, I had been holding it together. He's got this old cell phone of ours, he said he was going to pick up the phone and call his Mummy.