But there's a phone ringing in the White House... who do you want to answer the phone?
Remember the Hillary Clinton ad of the White House phone ringing at 3AM, asking whom would you want to answer.
With Digital Plus turned on, the conversation is easier to hear, and you can also parse background noises, like a phone ringing in an office.
What was interesting was that even though I could still hear most office sounds (like the phone ringing) through the ear defenders, the very act of wearing them gave off a subtle 'go-away-I'm-working' vibe that allowed others to ignore and exclude me without being impolite ... it worked for me!
There about 56% of the interruptions came from external events (the phone ringing, email notification, someone walking to their cubicle or office, etc.) It seems that we cause our own interruptions almost as much as we are interrupted by other factors an outgrowth of the diverse workloads we face today, perhaps.
Thanks to the Securities and Exchange Commission, your phone is ringing off the hook.
As soon as word came that the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, the phone started ringing.
Of course, I didn't know that until I got to my car, and then my phone starts ringing.
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You lie there sobbing in despair and slowly you begin to realize the phone is ringing beside you.
Soon, the phone was ringing, and Kennerly was heading to the "Seinfeld" set.
The phone began ringing, today as always, before their feet hit the floor.
"The phone is ringing off the hook, " said Mr. Wizner as he skinned a 250-pound black bear in his driveway.
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"The phone is ringing all the time, " said Czarnek's mother, Victoria, who signed up for the university's mobile alert system.
While waiting for a decision from the council, Wendy's phone keeps ringing.
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The incident did not stop Rice's phone from ringing after the tournament.
But after Lieberman was named, his phone started ringing with "unsolicited" offers to donate and help raise money for the Democratic ticket.
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Pull out of my drive the other day, cell phone starts ringing.
This is great news for Montgomery, considering that his phone is ringing off the hook with potential endorsement and marketing opportunities for his client.
She complains about a recent boyfriend, an electrician whom she had been dating for about six months, whose phone started ringing late at night.
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If your door is open, if your phone is ringing, if your website is working, customers must know how important they are to you.
As more people with disabilities start being placed and the secret of what a great business decision this is, my phone is ringing off the hook with people outside of Florida wanting us there.
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Rochelle Peachey, a woman who makes her money by convincing people they should not be single (aka she founded an online dating site), was once busted when her phone started ringing in the middle of a fake conversation.
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Rupert Murdoch, your phone is ringing.
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She imagined him ignoring the ringing phone, humming boredly right beside the machine as she left her messages.
She was completely oblivious that the phone had been ringing off the hook.
Banging away at a typewriter, he ignores the ringing phone next to him, in the age-old tradition of geniuses at work.
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