ringing the changes
Example Sentences
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In total there were 22 bowling switches, Cummins ringing the changes more than any other captain at this World Cup.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2023
Chelis is supposedly ringing the changes from an already transformed Chivas side that had the local Columbus announcers confessing to not knowing who "half these guys" were during last week's game.
From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013
Weller is ringing the changes at Argos, which last had a makeover at the millennium.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
"That's yer sort, laddies; ye're guid at ringing the changes on that head onyway," cried Watt.
From The Lighthouse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
As for subjects of verse, they are only too plenty For ringing the changes on metrical chimes; A maiden, a moonbeam, a lover of twenty, Have filled that great basket with bushels of rhymes.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
