Earth to someone.

Earth to someone.
phr. Hello someone, are you listening? (A means of getting the attention of someone who is ignoring you or who is daydreaming. As if one were on the earth, trying to contact someone in a spaceship. The implication is that the person being addressed is spacy.)
Earth to Mom! Earth to Mom! What’s for dinner?
Earth to Fred! Are you asleep? Say something, Fred!

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