Collocations for phone - noun

cellular, cordless, mobile, portable | car | pay (also ‘payphone’), public
There''s a public payphone in reception.

office, private

be on
She''s on the phone at the moment.

use
Can I use your phone?

answer, get
(informal),

lift, pick up
If the phone rings, don''t answer it. | Can you get the phone?

hang up, put down, replace
I hung up the phone when he started shouting at me.

slam down
She slammed the phone down in a rage.

be wanted on
Mum, you''re wanted on the phone.

call sb to
He was called to the phone just as he was leaving.

connect | disconnect | bug, tap
I think our phone is being tapped.

wait by
She waits by the phone all day but he doesn''t ring.

leave/take off the hook
I couldn''t get through because you''d left the phone off the hook.

ring | be engaged
His phone is engaged.

be off the hook | go dead
The phone suddenly went dead in the middle of our conversation.

number | book | bill | call, conversation, message | card (also ‘phonecard’) | company, network, service | booth, box | line
The modem links the computer to a phone line.

by ~
We keep in contact by phone but we rarely see each other.

on the ~
We spoke on the phone the other day.

over the ~
I haven''t seen her but we spoke over the phone.