bells and whistles Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌbelz ən ˈwɪs.əlz]
  • Us [ ˌbelz ən ˈwɪs.əlz]

Meaning of bells and whistles In English

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Examples of bells and whistles

  • This is the idea that you get full-blown, human cognition by gradually adding bells and whistles to basic (embodied, embedded) strategies of relating to (adaptively coupling with) the present-at-hand.

  • I do not understand the bells and whistles that make these things operate.

  • Such ownership alone would be enough to increase its market value significantly without adaptations, improvements or bells and whistles.

  • I will briefly try to put some bells and whistles on the clause.

  • We shall not support amendments which seek to add new bells and whistles to the system.

  • Some of his proposals would not so much control the product as attach a few bells and whistles to the proposed system.

  • I am sure that something like that exchange must have occurred—without my imaginative bells and whistles.

  • Clearly, the matter had got out of control, as more and more people put in bells and whistles—80 pages were devoted to winding up commonholds.

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