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 …
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 …
etymology - Why do we "beat seven bells out of" someone?
[Apparently originally with allusion to the nautical tradition of sounding ‘eight bells’ to mark a sailor's death (i.e. sounding the ship's bell eight times, the usual signal for the end of a watch; …
How to cite an author who does not capltalize her name if you are ...
Feb 13, 2014 · According to the very link you have on CMoS, it says that one must capitalise and advises to re-write. Though oddly, while it (correctly) says "E. E. Cummings" is fine because …
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 …
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:
Origin of "Well, well, well. What do we have here?"
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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 , …