Phone in

Please give us the courtesy of showing up instead of phoning in.

Please give us the courtesy of delivering it in person instead of phoning it in.

We've got Brian phoning in from Phoenix. Brian, you're on the air.

phone it in

He thought he could phone in the scheduling process, but it takes sharp negotiations around here.

He thought he could phone it in. [pronoun antecedent: the scheduling process]

We're sick of Alice's attitude. She's been phoning it in ever since Bob left. [pronoun antecedent: notional: either "her job" or undefined]

But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away

his new show with Julia Child -- "Julia and Jacques Cooking At Home" on WMPT Channel 22 -- is a clever marketing stroke, but at times both of these veteran teachers seem to be phoning it in.

And I think our campaign put a lot more on the line, frankly, to try to solve that problem than Senator Obama, who tried to phone it in.