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  • 121ring\ in — v. phr. informal 1. To bring in (someone or something) from the outside dishonestly or without telling; often: hire and introduce under a false name. Bob offered to ring him in on the party by pretending he was a cousin from out of town. No… …

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  • 122ring a bell — In a rural Wisconsin town, the local church erected a belfry and bell tower to the top of the church to add to the sevices for Sunday. Unfortunately, the job required somone to not only ring the bell at the appropriate times, but to act as a live …

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  • 123ring someone/thing in or out — usher someone or something in (or out) by or as if by ringing a bell. → ring …

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  • 124ring-a-levio — or ring a lievo noun Etymology: alteration of earlier ring relievo, from 1ring + relieve Date: circa 1901 a game in which players on one team are given time to hide and are then sought out by members of the other team who try to capture them,… …

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  • 125Ring-tailed Cat — Taxobox name = Ringtail status = LR/lc | status system = IUCN2.3 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Carnivora familia = Procyonidae genus = Bassariscus species = B. astutus binomial = Bassariscus… …

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  • 126ring up — verb a) To telephone, to call someone on the telephone. He took out his wallet and gave her a pound note and a ten shilling note. She rang up the sum on the till, snapped the notes into their little clip, shut the drawer. b) To enter a payment… …

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  • 127ring someone's bell — verb To physically traumatize someone with a strong blow, especially a concussive blow to the head. Braves outfielder Eddie Miller was struck in the head with an object thrown from the left field seats. . . . Braves manager Bobby Cox said Miller… …

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  • 128Ring of Isengard —    The defences of Orthanc.    The rocky walls that surrounded and protected the Tower of Orthanc. They grew out of the wall of a valley at the southern end of the Misty Mountains, and were worked by the early Gondorians so that they formed a… …

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