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1. To be exactly what one wants, needs, or is looking for. I was browsing the lot for a new car, when I saw a used Camaro that really rang the bell. We've been wandering around town looking for somewhere to eat, but nothing has rang the bell so far. 2. To prove especially memorable, noteworthy, or effective.
To seem familiar, remind one of something, or stimulate an incomplete or indistinct memory. Your description rings a bell, but I don't think I've ever been there myself. A: "Have you ever heard of Steve Robinson?" B: "Hmm, the name doesn't ring a bell." See also: bell, ring. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
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1. To strike one with a violent blow to the head, especially as might stun or concuss. I would have rung that guy's bell if I knew he had been trash-talking you. Sarah's likely to ring your bell if you keep harassing her like that. 2. To be enjoyable, preferable, or satisfactory to one; to be or provide something that one wants.
1. To render one stunned, insensible, or unconscious, as from a physical blow or the effects of a drug. I could hear him bad-mouthing my girlfriend, so I went over and rang his bells with a single left hook to the eye. Be careful with this stuff—it will really ring your bells if you take too much at once. 2.
1. To strike one with a violent blow to the head, especially as might stun or concuss. I would have rung that guy's bell if I knew he had been trash-talking you. Sarah's likely to ring your bell if you keep harassing her like that. 2. To be enjoyable, preferable, or satisfactory to one; to be or provide something that one wants.
This expression alludes to a memory being summoned in the same way as the bell of a telephone or door summons one to answer. Dating from the early twentieth century, the term appeared in Nicholas Monsarrat’s This Is a Schoolroom (1939): “The things we talked about . . . rang no bell.”. See also: ring, that.
1. To strike one with a violent blow to the head, especially as might stun or concuss. I would have rung that guy's bell if I knew he had been trash-talking you. Sarah's likely to ring your bell if you keep harassing her like that. 2. To be enjoyable, preferable, or satisfactory to one; to be or provide something that one wants.
