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"phone it in" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiom that means to perform a task, usually a job, with minimal effort. For example, "I'm not feeling well today and just phoned it in at work."
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"When you've put in a performance like this then stick your feet up, phone it in and collect the dough.
When you have a sizable lead, it's important not to take things for granted or phone it in, so to speak.
"There was Vegas as big as life," Pileggi recalls, "and Nora leaned across to me in the theatre and said, 'This one is for real… you can't just phone it in.' She was very hopeful for it.
Are you gonna phone it in?
My brain wanted it to be PHONING IN, which isn't even that "in-the-language" as PHONE IT IN.
Phone it in.
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Bush charges that a "phone-it-in foreign policy" is "leaving a legacy of crises uncontained, violence unopposed, enemies unnamed, friends undefended, and alliances unravelling".
Hillary Clinton was Bush's main target in the speech — part of "the Obama-Clinton-Kerry team," with "their phone-it-in foreign policy," leading America to "the greatest risk of all — military inferiority".
Hillary Clinton was Bush's main target in the speech part of "the Obama-Clinton-Kerry team," with "their phone-it-in foreign policy," leading America to "the greatest risk of all military inferiority".
Unfortunately this doesn't sound like the easy, phone-it-in kind of course we were hoping for.
Bush phones it in.
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