ring off

British  

verb

1. (intr, adverb) to terminate a telephone conversation by replacing the receiver; hang up

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Example Sentences

“I will give you my ring,” she said as she pulled a little ring off her finger.

From Literature

On “The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,” Mr. Cole imagines himself looking back on his life at the moment of his death, seeing it replay in reverse, and his commitment to the structural gambit is easy to admire: “With each day that passes, I could feel my career comin’ first / ‘Do I,’ took the wedding ring off her finger / And now I’m single, walking up the aisle backwards to an era of dirt.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Babci twisted a paint-smudged opal ring off her finger.

From Literature

The phone at the Cambridge, Mass.,-based Denham Group “is starting to ring off the hook,” says eXp agent Todd Denman.

From Barron's

Not in the snow, but on dusty, familiar carpet, Boaz beside her, panting as he yanked the ring off his finger.

From Literature