单词 | to bang out |
释义 | > as lemmasto bang out b. transitive. Sometimes depreciative. to bang out: extracted from bangv.1 (a) to play (music) enthusiastically and noisily, but usually without finesse. ΚΠ 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) i. 22 He strummed,..striking wrong notes, and banging out a bass in a different key—a hideously grotesque performance. 1919 E. G. Craig Theatre—Advancing ii. 51 To perform..in a closed theatre, with a band banging out musical selections from composers of all nationalities and centuries. 1951 S. Plath Jrnl. July (2000) 79 Marcia slouched over the piano, her tan a golden brown against her blue sweater, banging out a jazzy version of ‘Ja-Da’. 1991 Dirty Linen Oct. 28/4 [She] started the night at the grand piano banging out her boogie woogie and belting out tunes in her gospel/blues style. (b) to produce hurriedly or prolifically, either in the form of routine and undistinguished work, or as the result of effortless skill (used esp. of writing; cf. to churn out at churn v. 3). ΚΠ 1928 J. C. Turner Anthony Mundy ix. 85 They came no nearer to the forty pounds offered for catching the winged hand-press that was banging out seditious pamphlets. 1945 D. Thomas Let. 28 Mar. (1987) 547 Please don't forget to have a shot at doing those ‘personal’ thousand words for the introduction to my American Selected Writing. Let me see what you bang out. 1973 N. Freedman Joshua 180 He was not proficient, but banged out pages relentlessly. 1987 D. Clandfield Canad. Film ii. 20 The speed of production—the Board had ‘to bang them out one a fortnight and no misses’..—compromised the organic development of the film story. 1997 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) May 222/2 When it's all going well and you're banging out really beautiful food and everyone is pulling together, there's nothing like it. < as lemmas |
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