single word requests - What do you call the sound of a bell?
Sep 11, 2011 · The sound of a hand held brass bell, to me, is "ding-a-ling." "Tinkle" would apply at best to a very small bell (and at worst is slang for urinate as I commented above), and "brrring" …
idioms - For whom the bell tolls - origin of "ask not" instead of ...
Jun 15, 2016 · HAGSTRUM: I was rather amused to read that after Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls came out with its quotation from John Donne's Devotions people came to the …
single word requests - Is there a term for the sound of a bicycle …
JINGLE BELL PUKY G22 9913-22 MM. Another word as correctly suggested in the comment below (@PLL) and in the definition above is tinkle. to give forth or make a succession of short, …
etymology - What caused bell peppers to be called capsicums in …
Aug 24, 2016 · 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 241 Bell Pepper. The fruit is large..somewhat shaped like a bell.. . . ("pepper, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 24 …
colloquialisms - Words are not sparrows; once they have flown …
Oct 6, 2017 · The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung. or. You cannot unring the bell. Google books traces "cannot be unrung" to 1924:... what is learned or suspected outside of court may have …
Where does it comes from "pull the other leg, it's got bells on"?
Dec 20, 2019 · @Astralbee I was born in Derbyshire in 1949 and I can remember "pull the other one it's got bells on" from the late '50s.
A figure of speech to illustrate the irreversibility of an action
May 2, 2016 · Personally I like "You can't unring that bell" as deadrat mentioned above. The phrase refers to the fact that you can't un-hear a bell that has been rung. There's a nice essay …
etymology - Origin of using "clocked" to mean "noticed" - English ...
The second is based on the origins of 'clock', (OED ~ "Middle English clok(ke , clocke , was either < Middle Dutch clocke (modern Dutch klok ‘bell, clock’), or < Old Northern French cloke , …
The door was opened vs The door was open [duplicate]
Dec 1, 2015 · The door was open. In this sentence 'open' is an adjective. It means 'not closed or blocked up'. The sentence has the same structure as 'the boy was smart' or 'the girl is beautiful'.
Origin of the phrase "under your belt"? - English Language
The Online Etymological Dictionary says:. To get something under (one's) belt is to get it into one's stomach.. The Oxford English Dictionary says: