My understanding is that it comes from john donne's meditation xvii (1623) The picture is that the alarm is loud (a siren, bell, etc) and indicates danger of some sort But in donne's poem, the line is any man's.
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A person working in an indian supermarket was shocked when i told her it's called bell pepper in the us, uk, canada and ireland
I had to pull out wikipedia to convince her it was.
A bicycle bell is a percussive signaling instrument mounted on a bicycle for warning pedestrians and other cyclists For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. 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'. In the static door bell reading it's a. The phrase finder has an interesting assumption Another possibility is that the expression derived from the work of the english cartoonist and sculptor rowland emett
If a human would exclaim it, i believe it would be an interjection
If a bell produces the sound, is it. See the sentence below [1] Hardly had the bell rung when matthew started running out of his classroom I guess the construction is correct
If i change this to [2] I had to pull out wikipedia to convince her it. The bell, once rung, cannot be unrung Or you cannot unring the bell
Google books traces cannot be unrung to 1924
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