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Especially in context, the phrasing is ridiculous, but semantically it no different from "I refused to be bossed around by my phone".


Refusing to be bossed around by an inanimate object still seems somewhat ridiculous to me.


A phone, especially a ringing one, isn't particularly inanimate.


Being bossed around by an inanimate object seems even more ridiculous to me :)




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