make the welkin ring
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Etymology[edit]
See etymology at welkin; and ring, verb sense 1, etymology 2.
Verb[edit]
make the welkin ring (third-person singular simple present makes the welkin ring, present participle making the welkin ring, simple past and past participle made the welkin ring)
- To make a loud noise.
- (idiomatic) To celebrate or revel.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter IV, page 44:
- There was nothing like that spirit which, when the heart goes with the decree of the ruler, makes the welkin ring with its unregulated rejoicings.