"unring a bell" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "unrang a bell",
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      ]
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    {
      "form": "unrung a bell",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Fern Michaels, The Real Deal, page 413:",
          "text": "\"We can't unring any bells here. There's no point in trying to second-guess anyone right now. What's done is done.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 May 7, Victoria Bekiempis, quoting Todd Blanche, “Trump hush-money trial: Stormy Daniels describes being ‘startled’ by sexual encounter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view.”",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To reverse the irreversible; to perform the impossible."
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        "(idiomatic) To reverse the irreversible; to perform the impossible."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "put the genie back in the bottle"
        }
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "unrang a bell",
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    {
      "form": "unrung a bell",
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      "word": "put the genie back in the bottle"
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Fern Michaels, The Real Deal, page 413:",
          "text": "\"We can't unring any bells here. There's no point in trying to second-guess anyone right now. What's done is done.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 May 7, Victoria Bekiempis, quoting Todd Blanche, “Trump hush-money trial: Stormy Daniels describes being ‘startled’ by sexual encounter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view.”",
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        "To reverse the irreversible; to perform the impossible."
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        "(idiomatic) To reverse the irreversible; to perform the impossible."
      ],
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