“Until recently, Taylor Swift never struck me as worth worshiping. I couldn’t imagine worshiping a woman with bangs.” Anna Dorn learns to love Taylor Swift. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lack-of-charisma-can-be-comforting/
"People bang on about how the marketisation of the NHS must be resisted. But the fact is that it’s hard to tell patients that they’re wrong – wrong to believe that doctors can always help them more with their ailments than they can help themselves, and wrong to believe that there’s a pill for every ill. Maybe, we, the patients, are behaving a bit too much like customers, and helping to marketise the NHS in our own small way too."
Russia's attempt to find out how organisms reproduce in space did not end with a bang.
A Bang-Up Fourth of July
I’m fond of Google, I have to say. I like Larry Page, who seems, at least in the YouTube videos I’ve watched, shy and smart, with salt-and-pepper bangs; and Sergey Brin, who seems less shy and jokier and also smart.
Lehman Brothers may have rattled the global economy with its collapse last fall, but it seems to be doing a bang-up job under Barclays' umbrella.
be down to
1Be attributable to (a particular factor orcircumstance):he claimed his problems were down to the media
1.1Be the responsibility of (a particular person):it’s down to you to make sure the boiler receives regular servicing
bang
n.
- A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.
- A sudden loud blow or bump.
- Informal. A sudden burst of action: The campaign started off with a bang.
- Slang. A sense of excitement; a thrill: We got a bang out of watching the old movies.
v., banged, bang·ing, bangs. v.tr.
- To strike heavily and often repeatedly; bump.
- To close suddenly and loudly; slam.
- To handle noisily or violently: banged the pots in the kitchen.
- Vulgar Slang. To have sexual intercourse with.
- To make a sudden loud, explosive noise.
- To crash noisily against or into something: My elbow banged against the door.
- Exactly; precisely: The arrow hit bang on the target.
- Suddenly; abruptly: cut the conversation bang off.
bang away
- To speak or ask questions in a rapid, aggressive manner: reporters banging away at the official during the press conference.
- To work diligently and often at length: banged away at the project until it was finished.
- To damage extensively: banged up the car.
bang for the (or one's) buck
- Value returned for investment or effort.
Definition of bang on in English:
bang
adj. Informal.
Very good; excellent: did a bang-up job on the test.
[From BANG1 .]
bang up
Damage, injure, as in Banging up the car a second time will make Dad very unhappy, or Mother fell down the stairs and was all banged up. The verb to bang alone had this meaning from the 1500s on, up being added in the late 1800s. In the early 1800s it gave rise to the colloquial adjective bang-up, for excellent or very successful, as in David did a bang-up job baking the birthday cake.
A turn up for the books
Meaning
An unexpected piece of good fortune.Origin
Since the 1820s or thereabouts, the term 'turn-up' has been used to mean 'a surprise; an example of good fortune'. The reference was to cards or dice, which are 'turned up' by chance. Specifically, the 'turn up' was referred to in the game of cribbage. At the start of a game of cribbage a member of one team cuts the pack and a member of the other turns up the top card. If this is a Jack, the second team gets an extra point. The point is called 'one for his nob', or 'one for his nibs' - the Jack being one of the 'Royal' cards and 'nibs' being slang for 'a person of importance'.'Turn up' was defined by John Camden Hotten in 1859, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words:
Turn up: An unexpected slice of luck.
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