call, click or stop by

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> I heard this on a Wells Fargo radio commercial. I'm sure it's standard
> by now--it didn't sound unnatural to me, anyway. This is an expression
> I've been looking for to use when writing advertising copy.
>
> Click is interesting in its own right as an intransitive verb, though
> it's probably still glued to expressions like this. BB

"Call, click or visit" is a more common version.


--Ben Zimmer

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