put a call through

Eventually, Dad gets us all calmed down enough to put a call through to Rabbi Gold.

In the 1980s, expat author Tony Cohan would contact his daughter in New York by trekking to the “larga distancia” office, where an operator would put a call through, as he recounted in his popular memoir “On Mexican Time.”

As John’s mood lifts—his digital adviser Annabel knows his weakness for the Black Eyed Peas—his digital assistant continues: “John, you haven’t spoken to your brother for a while, shall I put a call through?”

On Election Day, Keene, then a Nixon staffer, was following returns in the White House when somebody put a call through to see how things were going in Maryland.

“I might even be able to put a call through to him if the computer has a microphone.”