{"id":185,"date":"2014-03-27T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2014-03-27T11:58:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T09:58:26","slug":"idiom-31-it-rings-a-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-31-it-rings-a-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 31 – It rings a bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The perfect candidate applied for the open position at our company, but I lost his application! I’ve looked through a list of names of people who have emailed me recently to try and find him, but none of the names on the list rings a bell = kommt mir bekannt vor<\/em><\/p>\n

Some believe that the origin of this idiom is the experiments carried out by Pavlov where he struck a bell every time he fed a group of dogs. The dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. After a while, at the mere sound of the bell, they responded by drooling.<\/p>\n

Others say it is simply because bells are often used to remind us of things, from a school bell to the egg timer in your kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The perfect candidate applied for the open position at our company, but I lost his application! I’ve looked through a list of names of people who have emailed me recently to try and find him, but none of the names on the list rings a bell = kommt mir bekannt vor Some believe that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}