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Idiom similar to saved by the bell - English Language Usage Stack . . . Oxford Languages gives two senses for ' [be] saved by the bell: ' escape from a difficult situation narrowly or by an unexpected intervention ' 'or' should of course be 'and or' But do you require the 'last minute' or 'unexpected intervention' sense, or either or both?
adjectives - Is calling a gerund in calling bell? - English . . . calling-bell It all boils down to whether "calling bell" means a static door bell or a bell that is actively calling in order to seek attention In the static door bell reading it's a compound noun, hyphenated, consisting of a gerund-participle verb + noun, with a purposive meaning: "bell for calling"
etymology - What is the origin of rings a bell? - English Language . . . ring a bell In the sense of "click" (q v ), i e , succeed, strike home, make an impression, I believe this derives from the well-known carnival device rather than from a target with a bell in its center I refer to the spring-action contrivance that you hit with a sledge hammer in an effort to send a small weight up a slide to a bell at the top
orthography - Bell crank, bell-crank or bellcrank? - English Language . . . The first form, " bell crank " tells me that we are talking about a crank which turns actuates a bell The second form " bell-crank " tells me that we are talking about bell-shaped crank, or a specialty crank that is only useful for cranking bells, without saying anything of its shape
grammar - Can something ring me a bell? - English Language Usage . . . The phrase you are looking for is probably "that doesn't ring a bell for me" "Ring me" can be used in a completely different context with different meanings of the verb, including to call me on the telephone and to put a ring on me like a bird
Interjection for the sound of a bell - English Language Usage Stack . . . That is an interesting question in its own right - what part of speech is "boom!"? If a human would exclaim it, I believe it would be an interjection If a bell produces the sound, is it still an interjection? What I meant by the question is that I wasn't looking for a noun ("a ringing") or verb ("to ring") The noun, verb and interjection (?) could all be said to be onomatopoetic, as far as I
nouns - Why is the word pepper used for both capsicum (e. g. bell . . . The Online Etymology Dictionary states that Latin piper is the source of the English word (as well as “German Pfeffer, Italian pepe, French poivre, Old Church Slavonic pipru, Lithuanian pipiras, Old Irish piobhar, Welsh pybyr, etc ”) It's ultimately from Sanskrit and originally referred to the Old World's Piper genus The New World's Capsicum genus came to be called “pepper” in the