unring a bell

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toreversetheirreversible; to perform the impossible.2004, Fern Michaels,The Real Deal, page413:"We can'tunring any bellshere. There's no point in trying to second-guess anyone right now. What's done is done."2024May 7, Victoria Bekiempis, quotingTodd Blanche, “Trump hush-money trial: Stormy Daniels describes being ‘startled’ by sexual encounter”, inThe Guardian‎[1],→ISSN:“We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way tounring that bell, in our view.”

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