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- single word requests - What do you call the sound of a bell? - English . . .
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" would apply to the repeated hammering on a bell such as one used to hear telephones or school bells make "Bling" is slang for gaudy jewellery!
- idioms - For whom the bell tolls - origin of ask not instead of . . .
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 libraries and wanted the complete works of John Donne Here was one book which influenced another much in the same manner as a movie will influence the sale of the book
- What does hells bells refer to? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The Phrase Finder is a recommended reference << What's the origin of the phrase 'Hell's bells'? The exclamation 'Hell's bells' has been used in both the UK and the USA since at least the mid-19th century
- etymology - What caused bell peppers to be called capsicums in some . . .
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 August 2016 Sense 3 ) Capsicum, on the other hand, is first attested as a botanical term for the plant in 1664, and as a term for the plant's fruit in 1725 ("capsicum, n "
- etymology - Why do we beat seven bells out of someone? - English . . .
[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; hence ‘seven bells’ would carry the implication ‘almost to death’ ] a
- How to cite an author who does not capltalize her name if you are . . .
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 he didn't lowercase his name himself, and advise rewriting to not begin a sentence with "bell hooks", there's an exception made for "names like eBay"
- Obscene yourself (literally) in Hemingways For Whom The Bell Tolls
I am reading Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (an edition from 1960) Throughout the book, strong words and obscenities are replaced literally by the term "obscenity" or similar For example (emphasis added): “My transmission is smashed,” the driver, who was bent over by the rear of his truck, said “Obscene your transmission Go
- A figure of speech to illustrate the irreversibility of an action
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 about its history here: Unring the Bell (impossibility of taking back a statement or action)
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