bang up
Example Sentences
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Listening to this book puts one in mind of Dylan’s verdict on Elvis Costello’s work: “Too many thoughts, way too wordy. Too many ideas that just bang up together.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022
I was captain and we were bang up for that one, I can assure you.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022
A new book about the software makers who are quietly building modern society is bang up to date in a fast-moving world, says reviewer Li Gong.
From Nature • Apr. 4, 2019
Chefs such as Campbell are brave and exciting to me because to even pepper a menu with the term “vegan” is to bang up against decades of culinary prejudice.
From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018
I took a rag out of my tote sack and wrapped the knife in it so’s it wouldn’t bang up ’gainst none of my chunking stones.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
