It is possible, you know.

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I know a few people who have told me that when they take naps in the afternoon they take the phone (the regular one, the one that used to have a dial on it) off the hook. I'm not really sure that I believe them.

It does, however, show up as somewhat common advice on the internet. A Google search on the phrase "take the phone off the hook" brings up about 4300 pages. Some of these contain the phrase in lyrics to various songs (none of them, as best I can recall, known to me) but many, probably most, contain it as advice for relaxing and/or getting into a mood (not always romantic). Frankly, I greatly doubt that anyone really does this. There are probably many more people suggesting we do this than really doing it.

And of course I greatly doubt that anybody, anywhere, still has a phone on which the receiver actually hangs on a hook from which it might, by choice, be taken off.

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