Once you receive the initial busy signal, you must hang-up, doing this ends the call.
You must call again & again, until the person you are calling, answers their phone.
It means someone is on the phone with someone else or the phone is off the hook.
the phone is busy
You can find out if someone is on the phone by calling them and listening for a busy signal or by checking their phone's display for an active call notification.
he is busy molesting children and can't make it to the phone in time.
Usually, you can tell by always busy, talking to someone else, and not answering the phone (during the night).
I have been busy doing housework all afternoon.I tried to phone my mum, but the phone line was busy.The bees are busy making honey.Took the bus into Bolton but could not find a seat, it was very busy today.
what every other phone hears.
Several possible reasons: 1) You are talking on the phone. 2) You accidentally left a phone off the hook. 3) There is a short circuit in your phone line. 4) Someone else is calling you at the same time. 5) There is a malfunction in the phone company equipment. 6) If you have a party line, the other party is using the phone. If you hear a "fast busy" tone instead of the normal busy tone, that means there is an overload in the phone company's switching equipment or there is some other malfunction. Fast busy signals are also often heard after an intercept recording explaining a telephone problem.
busy as a bee
If you have a phone, tell them you are busy.
she's busy working on Burning Time with Morgan Freeman so very soon.
The phone number of the Busy Brains Children'S Museum is: 224-381-1239.