phone in 

When a person's heart and concentration are not really in the present moment or activity. They are detached and distant.

As Jane kept glancing at the clock on restaurant's wall and looking at the front door, Seth wondered what was causing her to phone in to their date.

phone in by Lavender12 April 29, 2016

Phone in left Hand 

You see something so attractive you must move your phone to your left hand so you can use your mand hand to masturbate.

Often used as a funny joke when someone does something cringeworthy or is being despised by others, for example in a comments section of a video.

Ugh my mom keeps posting embarrassing stuff to the Internet..

Friend: Phone in left hand moment.

Phone in left Hand by Smethwick The 3rd of Assland April 10, 2021

phone in bonin' 

phone in bonin' -- phone sex; phoning in boning (sex)

I don't cheat with road dirt; I get out my cell and I am phone in bonin'.

phone in bonin' by TooSick4U October 18, 2009

Left my phone in a cab

A catch-all excuse for work as to why you're not checking email, phone calls, or attending meetings while you're traveling or out of work (typically during your vacation). Often implies that you're spending your time having romantic encounters and otherwise spending your time doing extracurriculars, while avoiding work entirely.

I'm so sorry I couldn't check my email last week. I left my phone in a cab in Barcelona.

Left my phone in a cab by MigratingQs September 13, 2019

Go shove an i-phone in your burka 

This phrase is commonly used in response to some one who suspiciously claims claims they have done it all and seen before you. When in reality they probably haven't.

You-"Today I saw the most amazing thing in my life! it was this cage fight between a rabbit against this massive raptor!"

Group-"OOOOOOOOHHH AAAAAHHH"

Some person-"Oh I have seen that a thousand times before!"

You- "Go shove an i-phone in your burka"

Go shove an i-phone in your burka by trqqd May 24, 2011

Jeremy Vine phone-in

Take a complex, nuanced socio-economic problem that’s baffled experts for decades, then hand it to Barry, who'll bellow down the phone about how it’s all caused by "the boats", the unemployed and "Starma", backed up by a few second hand anecdotes and something he read in The Sun.

Did you catch that Jeremy Vine phone-in? Barry reckons "..he tells it like it is"

Jeremy Vine phone-in by anonymous April 15, 2026

phone it in 

Perform an act in a perfunctory, uncommitted fashion, as if it didn't matter.

She sang the National Anthem, but she was just phoning it in as far as I could tell.

phone it in by octopod November 8, 2003