Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Ding

(A). A blow. To ding it in one's ears. To repeat a subject over and over again; to teach by repetition.

To ding.
To strike. (Anglo-Saxon dencg [an] to knock strike beat.) Hence “ding-dong” as “They were at it ding-dong.”

The butcher's axe like great Achilles' bat
Dings deadly downe ten-thousand-thousand flat.

Taylor: Works (1630).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Ding-dong
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