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Seven bells of hell

Posted by Vic Allen on June 03, 2009 at 18:25

Any ideas about the origin of "seven bells of hell" - as in "he knocked seven bells of hell out of him"? I've got a few etymologies and phrase books but none of them refer to it, while a Google search mainly throws up a recipe for a dish which has seven types of pepper bells in it.

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