Answerphone

Please leave a message on the answerphone.

Please leave a message on my answerphone.

Mary left a message on Anna's answerphone. "Hello, Anna! It's me, Mary. Listen, I can't come today because we're going to Hamburg. Please ring me back. Bye!"

I was just going to make an appointment with my GP, but all I could get was the answerphone. Surgery hours end at midday on Fridays. It's now gone two.

I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.

It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.