| 单词 | to ring one's own bell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ring one's own bell b. colloquial. Chiefly U.S. to ring one's own bell: = to blow one's own trumpet at trumpet n. 3. ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) To Ring one's own Bell is the same as ‘to be one's own trumpeter’. 1860 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 208/2 I'm not the chap to ring my own bell; still I go for this, that decent extraction is some; and as every man must have had a grandfather, it's worth knowing what he was. 1981 W. Rudolph in M. M. Smith W. Rudolph (2006) xii. 109 No one, I've discovered, comes ringing the door to say, ‘We're looking for Wilma Rudolph to do some work for us’. I had to ring my own bell. 2003 A. Gelb & K. Levine Survival Guide for Paralegals v. 62 You've got to learn to ring your own bell, because you can be plenty sure that nobody's going to ring it for you. < as lemmas |
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