Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Precisely accurate; exactly appropriate or fitting.
- prep. idiomatic, UK Exactly at
- v. idiomatic, UK To constantly talk about
Examples
“I stuffed my possessions into their bags any which way, then went upstairs to bang on the door of Flo's room.”
“It was bang, bang, bang, bang on the drive downtown, ricochets, old dumb moves kicked around to see how they stood up next to this doozie.”
“I’d bang on the bottom of a kettle and sing all seven verses of ‘My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing’ at the top of my lungs.””
“At the thought of all this splendour, Hetty got up from her chair, and in doing so caught the little red-framed glass with the edge of her scarf, so that it fell with a bang on the floor; but she was too eagerly occupied with her vision to care about picking it up; and after a momentary start, began to pace with a pigeon-like stateliness backwards and forwards along her room, in her coloured stays and coloured skirt, and the old black lace scarf round her shoulders, and the great glass ear-rings in her ears.”
“It must have been something when they ran out of gołąbki at the parish picnic and Alice Pilch had to drive around town and bang on the doors of people who had bought the ones she makes yearround in her kitchen, offering to buy them back at more than the people had paid for them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bang on’.
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phraseologue ⊃ the one-two punch
short (mostly two-word) collocations, pat phrases, idioms &c. that I like
merry chase, glancing blow, beast mode, feedback loop, false flag, dear god, nothing human, deflector shield, hatchet job, not cricket, bang on, a tinker's damn and 315 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Living in Scotland
I moved to Scotland in 2011 and promptly had to learn another language. Here are some of the best additions to my vocabulary.
dreich, numpty, bang on, bog-standard, conkers, elevenses, faff, dekko, tickety-boo, snog, chuff, bell-end
Tweets
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bilby "Someone I know who hangs out with the very rich tells me that in the banker belt of the lower Thames valley there are people who heat their outdoor swimming pools to bath temperature, all round the year. They like to lie in the pool on winter nights, looking up at the stars. The fuel costs them £3000 a month. One hundred thousand people living like these bankers would knacker our life support systems faster than 10 billion people living like the African peasantry. But at least the super wealthy have the good manners not to breed very much, so the rich old men who bang on about human reproduction leave them alone."
- George Monbiot, The Population Myth, monbiot.com, 29 Sep 2009. Oct 12, 2009