hell's bells Idiom, Proverb
all the bells and whistles
bells and whistles
with bells on
with bells on one's toes
Idiom(s): with bells on (one's toes)Theme: DRYNESS
eagerly, willingly, and on time.
• Oh, yes! I'll meet you at the restaurant. I'll be there with bells on.
• All the smiling children were there waiting for me with bells on their toes.
Bells on
(USA) To be somewhere with bells on means to arrive there happy and delighted to attend.Pull the other one, it's got brass bells on
This idiom is way of telling somebody that you don't believe them. The word 'brass' is optional.with bells on|bell|bells
adv. phr., informal With enthusiasm; eager or ready and in the best of spirits for an event. "Will you come to the farewell party I'm giving for Billy?" asked Jerry. "I'll be there with bells on," replied Ed.hell's bells
An assertion of acrimony or surprise. A beneath anatomy of the byword "hell's accretion and buckets of blood." Oh, hell's bells—the printer isn't working, and my cardboard is due in bristles minutes!Learn more: bellHell's accretion (and buckets of blood)!
Inf. an assertion of acrimony or surprise. (Use attention with hell.) Alice: Your pants are broken in back. John: Oh, hell's bells! What will appear next? Bill: Well, Jane, looks like you aloof flunked calculus. Jane: Hell's accretion and buckets of blood! What do I do now?Hell’s accretion !
verbSee Hell’s accretion and buckets of blood!hell's bells
An assertion or balmy curse cogent abruptness or annoyance. Dating from the aboriginal bisected of the nineteenth century, this announcement assuredly owes its constancy to its rhyme. John Dos Passos acclimated it in Manhattan Transfer (1925), “But hell’s bells, what’s the use back this goddam war takes the accomplished advanced page?”Learn more: bell
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