to miss a call
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1.6
- phrasal verb
:
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- You know, I checked my phone and it seems that the only time I missed a call was right around... four o'clock.
Examples
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She was upset because she missed a call from her best friend.
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I didn't want to miss a call from my special friend.
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Yeah, I just missed a call.
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I missed a call from him earlier.
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I missed a call from Mom on Friday, and called her back a little while later.
Blog text (3) -
Hey, we missed a call from Dave.
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Don't worry if you have to miss a call or two, you'll get the recordings.
Blog text (3) -
I missed a call from my manager while I was in a meeting.
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After checking my phone, I saw that I had missed a call from my doctor.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'fail to answer a telephone call' is directly and compositionally derived from 'miss' (fail to make contact) + 'a' + 'call' (a telephone instance). This follows a common English verb + noun pattern and has clear parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase miss a call gives a simple picture: a phone is ringing and you miss the call because you do not pick up before it stops ringing. So, miss a call means 'to fail to answer a telephone call'.