sound as a bell in English

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      },
      "expansion": "sound as a bell (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act III, scene 2",
          "text": "He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In excellent condition."
      ],
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      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, colloquial) In excellent condition."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in excellent condition",
          "word": "gesund wie ein Fisch im Wasser"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "v pólnom zdrávii",
          "sense": "in excellent condition",
          "word": "в по́лном здра́вии"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sound as a bell.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4e/En-au-sound_as_a_bell.ogg/En-au-sound_as_a_bell.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/En-au-sound_as_a_bell.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sound as a bell"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "sound as a bell (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "English uncomparable adjectives"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act III, scene 2",
          "text": "He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In excellent condition."
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, colloquial) In excellent condition."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sound as a bell.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4e/En-au-sound_as_a_bell.ogg/En-au-sound_as_a_bell.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/En-au-sound_as_a_bell.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in excellent condition",
      "word": "gesund wie ein Fisch im Wasser"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "v pólnom zdrávii",
      "sense": "in excellent condition",
      "word": "в по́лном здра́вии"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sound as a bell"
}

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"sound as a bell" meaning in English

Adjective