Bell : noun Hollow, flared instrument in sonorous metal (bronze), from which resounding and prolonged vibrations are drawn by striking the walls.
(Good) Knock the bell: send each other a good meal, yell (see origin of the expression below).
Go to the bell: become homeless.
Word used to designate a tramp. Look at that bell!
Set of tramps : be of the bell.
The expression "banging the bell": having a good meal, having a feast.
In slang, among other meanings, joystick means "head" by analogy with the hollow object possibly filled with a sometimes not very functional brain, as in the fool ("poor bell!").
In slang, among other meanings, joystick means "head" by analogy with the hollow object possibly filled with a sometimes not very functional brain, as in the fool ("poor bell!").
But what connection can there be between the head and the good meal?
Gaston Esnault indicates that in 1900 bang your head meant "to eat".
But Warthburg says that our expression (with the word joystick) first meant "to get drunk", derivative to type something ou do it which were used to "drink a lot" in the middle of the XNUMXth century.
But those who have already experienced this know that the day after a little unreasonable libations, the head "hits" a bit.
The meaning of get drunk is therefore understandable when we know what will follow the excesses.
But drinking a lot to the point of getting drunk is also drinking to satiety, with an idea of fullness that we also find in the filling of food towards which the meaning of our expression has slipped, the bell then becoming the stomach or the belly, instead of the seat of thought.