英语词汇that rings the bell的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	that rings the bell
词源	that rings the bell. That’s perfect, just what we wanted. This Americanism, first recorded in 1904, is almost certainly from the carnival game where one tests his strength by driving a weight up a pole with a mallet and wins if he rings the bell at the top.
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