Who can remember...

I was earwigging someone else's conversation the other day, when I heard one of them say "...so I just hung up on him".  It had never struck me before, but the phraseology to hang up the 'phone is completely archaic now.  It really goes back to the days of what are now called "candlestick" telephones, when to end a call you literally had to hang the earpiece back up on the hook, which cut the connection. These days of course you just press a button - but I suppose "...I just pressed the button on him" doesn't have quite the same ring (no pun intended).