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the seven bells

the seven bells phrase: used as an intensifier after an interrogative pronoun.

Phrase

the seven bells

  1. (slang) Used as an intensifier after an interrogative pronoun.
    • That's simple enough, but why the seven bells doesn't the documentation say so? Instead it talks about resources, but nowhere defines what a resource is, or what the syntax is for describing one.2008 May 7, Robert Billing, “Are things getting difficult?”, in uk.comp.os.linux (Usenet)

Origin of the seven bells

From seven bells.

Questions about the seven bells

What does the seven bells mean?
The seven bells means used as an intensifier after an interrogative pronoun.
What part of speech is the seven bells?
The seven bells is a phrase.

Words near the seven bells in the dictionary

  1. the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
  2. The Scum
  3. The Sea
  4. the second mouse gets the cheese
  5. The Settlement
  6. the seven bells
  7. the shape of things to come
  8. the shirt off one's back
  9. the shit
  10. the shit out of
  11. the shits

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