Can I tag along to the store?
tag along
idiomTo accompany, join, or follow; to go with.
My little brother always wants to tag along when I meet my friends.
Though uninvited, she quietly tagged along, hoping no one would notice the stranger in their midst.
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phone tag
A situation in which two individuals attempting to contact each other by telephone repeatedly do not get a live person and instead trade messages, such as by voice mail.
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telephone tag
A situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by telephone and leaves a message instead, and in which the second person then unsuccessfully attempts to return the initial call and leaves a message for the first person, and so on as if the two are playing a game of tag in which the most recent person to have been left with a message is now designated as "it" (i.e. as the player now obliged to chase the other and to attempt anew to make contact).