Horn

0To me, it sounds a little old fashioned now. It sounds like something from an older movie: Get Murphy on the horn - tell him to meet me at the station in fifteen minutes!02br
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00I suppose you could say something like this: 01i00Hey John! I've got Alice on the horn. What's the name of that file you wanted her to find? 02i00But really, I'd just say "

0 I don't think it is current slang anywhere. 0-

0Thanks, both. So it's not used very much anymore now, but it's understood. Many thanks for your help. (Oh, I unknowingly placed 'a' before slang. It shouldn't have been there)02br
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0 Well I recognised it as you'd explained the context but if you said 'I've got Alice on the horn' to me without explanation, I'd be somewhat puzzled as to what you were doing to the poor girl. 0-

0You mean you might take it as something inappropriate? (I know another meaning, but I just don't want to write it directly) Then it would be better not to use it.02br
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0 No, not necessarily, but I'd be thinking of a physical horn of some sort - is she stuck on a cow's horn or something? It's just that it's such an old piece of slang that 'telephone' doesn't immediately spring to mind. 0-

0 It makes me think of those movies, in black and white, in which the men all wore suits with thin ties and fedora hats, and everyone talked really quickly and smoked a lot. (And the women got to wear fabulous hats too, and gloves! I was born in the wrong decade, I think.) 0-

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00the men all wore suits with thin ties and fedora hats, and everyone talked really quickly and smoked a lot.12blockquote

10You mean it's not that way anymore? 05000 It sounds like my neighborhood.010id6

0 If the women there still wear hats, I may move there, CJ! 0-