Ameche

Ameche

slang The phone. The word refers to Don Ameche, who played the titular character in the 1939 film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. Do I hear the Ameche ringing? You were on the Ameche when Stan dropped this off for you.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Ameche

n. telephone. (Very old slang. From the name of actor Don Ameche, who starred in the film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, 1939.) Won’t somebody please answer the Ameche?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (as) pleased as punch
  • pleased as punch
  • Dorian Gray
  • be (as) pleased as punch
  • Walter Mitty
  • Hamlet without the prince
  • prince
  • Kojak
  • Kojaks
  • an Uncle Tom
References in periodicals archive
Her first Hollywood movie, Down Argentine Way, was released the following year and saw her in a nightclub setting as herself singing South American Way alongside film favourites Don Ameche and Betty Grable.
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Three new techniques were taught to the participants- Swift Water Rescue facilitated by Danny Rodriquez, Bob Ameche and Simon Hewiit; Wild land Fire Management by Joe Lindaman, Patrick Stilson and Tom Nichols and Auto Extrication by Luis Carlos and Dave Kromka.
Its celebrity panel, comprised of Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche, Kitty Carlisle, and Tom Poston, was tasked with determining which of three guestseach wearing a suit and tie, sporting a large black yarmulke, and claiming to be Theodore Lewiswas in fact "the only Irish-born rabbi in the United States."
There were other great stars of other teams, too many to mention, but names such as Unitas, Bednarik (the last pro to play both offense and defense), Van Buren, Waterfield, and Ameche stand out.
En este sentido, estos indicadores ayudan a predecir los cambios que ocurren en el desempeno de la condicion somatica, valor nutritivo, periodos de engorde (Cruz, 1982; Prieto, Ramos, Ameche, Villalba, & Lodeiros, 2001; Aponte, Prieto, & Lemus, 2008), estado reproductivo, transferencia de energia (Lucas & Beninger 1985; Acosta et al., 2006; Acosta, Prieto, Licett, Longart, & Montes, 2011) y el efecto ambiental sobre el organismo en un momento dado (Sarkis, 1992; 1993).
"No reason for me to go, so I went with Larry Ameche--who was Don Ameche's son and our flight rep at the time--to the restaurant and we had a nice meal while the guys went and finished the game.
7 TRADING PLACES (1983) STOCK market comedy with Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as wealthy brothers causing mayhem for Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd when they start messing about with their lives for a one dollar bet.
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Comedy starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, David Suchet, Don Ameche and Kevin Peter Hall.
Is the fourth Wisconsin player to be a Heisman finalist, joining 1954 winner Alan Ameche, 1999 winner Ron Dayne and 2011 finalist Montee Ball.
6.55PM Don Ameche recounts his life and loves to Laird Cregar's Satan.
The actress won good notices for "Goldilocks'' (1958), a musical about the early days of movie-making, but the show, which also starred Don Ameche, was not a success.
The basin drains to the Ameche hydrometric station (1,787 masl), 20 kilometers west of Quereetaro city.
Cocoon: The Return (RTE One, 2.35pm - 4.40pm) Fantasy sequel, Don Ameche and Steve Guttenberg.