What number are you calling?

What number are you calling?
What number are you calling?
an expression used when one suspects that a telephone caller may have gotten the wrong number. •

Bob (on the telephone): Hello? Mary: Hello, is Sally there? Bob: Uh, what number are you calling? Mary: I guess I have the wrong number. Sorry. Bob: No problem. Good-bye.

When the receptionist asked, “What number are you calling?” I realized I had made a mistake.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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