death bell

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Noun

death bell - a bell rung to announce a death

death knell

bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

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Totenglocke

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The BJD said that the Centre's proposal of splitting and transferring a major part of the Waltair Railway Division (Vishakapatnam) to this new Railway Zone has "sounded a death bell to the railways in Odisha under East Coast Railway".

BJD accuses Centre of destroying railways in Odisha by creation of SCoR at Vizag

Making a turn from right to left or left to right is tantamount to invite death bell that it can ring any time.

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Who knew that on that Wednesday, as the death bell tolled, black birds of change that would affect us all were taking flight.

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The death bell is indeed tolling for the "religious state."

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"I have been in the pharmacy business all my professional life, since college, and every two or three years the death bell starts ringing that independent pharmacy is dying," he notes.