give someone a bell vs phone

give someone a bell

verb
  • To telephone someone. 

phone

verb
  • To call (someone) using a telephone. 

noun
  • A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. 

  • A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. 

How often have the words give someone a bell and phone occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )