It's like a cheaper way of leaving a message on their phone answering machines.

He left a message about the will on the lawyer's phone.

I've been leaving messages on his phone for two days.

"Louie left a message on my phone, so I know you know."

David left messages on Annie's phone and tried every other source he could think of that might know her whereabouts.

Nancy left a message on Jessica's phone to meet her at ten o'clock tonight.

She did not respond to two messages left on her phone there.

Last week, for example, a Nottingham policeman was reported to have left racist messages on someone else's phone.

We're taking the hard drive with us and there were no messages left on her phone.

"I left a message on your phone when I heard."