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Bing bonged

'You are being bing bonged all over the place'
Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.
  

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[/nq] "Bing bong" is the sound made by some doorbells, also sometimes heard as an attention-grabber at the start of a public-address announcement. Without further context, I'd guess that the sentence meant "messages for you have been going out on the PA system(s) and you've not responded". Mike Barnes Cheshire, England

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  • [/nq] "Bing bong" is the sound made by some doorbells, also sometimes heard as an attention-grabber at the start of a public-address announcement.
  • Without further context, I'd guess that the sentence meant "messages for you have been going out on the PA system(s) and you've not responded".
  • Mike Barnes Cheshire, England
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[nq:1]'You are being bing bonged all over the place' Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.[/nq]
"Bing bong" is the sound made by some doorbells, also sometimes heard as an attention-grabber at the start of a public-address announcement.

Without further context, I'd guess that the sentence meant "messages for you have been going out on the PA system(s) and you've not responded".

Mike Ba
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[nq:1]'You are being bing bonged all over the place' Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.[/nq]
A corruption, perhaps, of the Sicilian American "badda bing, badda bong"? The Sopranos' influence on American language?

Franklin
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[nq:2]'You are being bing bonged all over the place' Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.[/nq]
[nq:1]A corruption, perhaps, of the Sicilian American "badda bing, badda bong"?[/nq]
Oy! "Baddaboom", or more precisely patapuum , is Neapolitan, not Sicilian, and its derivatives entered AmE by way of Neapolitan-derived Italglish.
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[nq:1]'You are being bing bonged all over the place' Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.[/nq]
Bounced around, lead on a wild goose chase, toyed with, given false leads, and led up the garden path.
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[nq:2]'You are being bing bonged all over the place' Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.[/nq]
[nq:1]A corruption, perhaps, of the Sicilian American "badda bing, badda bong"? The Sopranos' influence on American language?[/nq]
More likely a recollection of 'bing bong Avon calling'
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]A corruption, perhaps, of the Sicilian American "badda bing, badda bong"? The Sopranos' influence on American language?[/nq]
[nq:1]More likely a recollection of 'bing bong Avon calling'[/nq]
Exactly. The inspector was ignoring the bing bong paging message.
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Irwell typed thus:
[nq:1]'You are being bing bonged all over the place' Heard on 'Inspector Frost'.[/nq]
To be "bing bonged" is a common and unremarkable term in a workplace with a central public address system. The PA goes "bing bong" before each announcement. I have never heard "to be bonged" but it's close enough to make me think it's the same thing.
I heard it used in Prime Suspect
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