clanger

Definitions

Examples

• I had “dropped,” as we used to say in the R. A. F. in those days, “a tremendous clanger.”

• The man whom the saloon-keeper had shot had but just been declared out of clanger and on the road to recovery.

• But the mother was wise, and aware of the clanger, kept in her own hands the administrating of the medicine.

• To add to the clanger, the gratings had been thrown overboard, and there was no way of confining the captives in the hold.

• Indeed, it is probable Mr Adams had rescued more than Fanny from the clanger of a rape that evening.

• “But I fear there is clanger,” rejoined Karl, in a tone of undiminished anxiety.