Hello my dear boy!" down the phone, refers to his wife as "Mrs Bloom", wears a tweed cap, drives an MG, and loves to get roaring drunk.
"Live phone" refers to reaching people by telephone, both household landlines and cell phones, with live interviewers asking questions and recording answers.
"They could have their own channels dedicated to packing," said Tyler Brûlé over the phone, referring to the Louis Vuitton employees chosen to pack at the pop-up.
"If it were now I'd say, 'You're the Cliff Lee of the free-agent market,' " Mr. Ellis said by phone, referring to the baseball pitcher.
"The M.P.A.A. wouldn't allow that title, and they wouldn't allow asterisks to replace words," Mr. Weitz said by phone, referring to the Motion Picture Association of America.
A Buffalo Wild Wings employee who identified himself as the manager of the restaurant in Brooklyn on the phone referred questions to the corporate office.
"It happens during election cycles," Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, told me by phone, referring to complaints about Sanger, though she said it does not usually come in the form of a letter from congressional leaders.
But when the Guide calls, the man who picks up the phone – referring to himself only as Mr Goatman – is deadly serious, genuinely humbled by the group's success and entirely sure of their intentions.
The star, who won best actress in a musical or comedy for Joy, came off as a culturally insensitive mean girl after ticking off a foreign journalist for asking a question from his phone, referring to him as "bro".
"It's an uphill climb from Andy of Mayberry and the Braves," he said in an interview by phone, referring to the old days when it was known as the WTBS Superstation — really just a glorified local station in Atlanta — and showed baseball games and reruns.
We called Hongs Gourmet last night, but the person who answered the phone referred us to her manager, who she told us had left for the day.
