Is someone there?

Is someone there?
Is someone there?
a way of requesting to talk to someone in particular over the telephone. (This is not just a request to find out where

someone

is. The

someone

is usually a person's name.) •

Tom: Hello? Mary: Hello. Is Bill there? Tom: No. Can I take a message?

Tom: Hello? Mary: Hello. Is Tom there? Tom: Speaking.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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