telephone number
Noun
Meaning
The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
(in the plural, humorous) A large number.
How much is that Rolls Royce? We are talking telephone numbers.
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Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.