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Episode 8: Desperate Fred Fred: Please Betty, don't hang up! You know I love you Betty! Will Betty hang up? Go to episode 9 to find out!

Hang up
Meaning: If you hang up, you end a telephone call by breaking the connection between yourself and the person you are speaking to. Grammar: This phrasal verb does not usually have an object (except telephone or phone). You can separate the verb from its particle, but not if the object is a pronoun. She hung up She hung up the telephone (this is rare) She hung the phone up (this is rare) She hung up it Example sentence: How rude - I was in the middle of telling her a story and she just hung up! Synonyms: ring off

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