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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How to use pick up the phone in a sentence?

1. John McCain:

   I have no reason to believe that the charge is true, but I also believe that the President of the United States could clear this up in a minute, all he has to do is pick up the phone, call the director of the CIA, director of national intelligence and say, 'OK, what happened?'.

2. Dan Moriarty:

   It’s replacing calling the front desk for that subset of guests, we don’t want to pick up the phone and wait for the front desk; we want to tweet and get on with our lives.

3. Sean Costello:

   They didn’t pick up the phone.

4. 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.

5. Stacie McQuinn:

   We are unable to visit our loved ones, and unable to hug them, give a kiss, hold their hand, we are unable to pick up the phone and say 'Hi, how are you doing?' We are unable to write them ... So the defendant should not be able to have any of those things.