bear away the bell

verb

Etymology

A bell was once a traditional prize in races.

Definitions

  1. To be superior in something.

    • And as these western men do bear away the bell for might and sleight in wrestling , so the scholars here have always acquitted themselves with credit in palæstrâ literariâ

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