bang something out

bang something out
bang something out
to play something on the piano, loudly, banging on the keys; to type something on a keyboard by pounding on the keys. •

Let me bang this melody out and see if you can guess who wrote it.

Please bang out the school song good and loud.

I banged out the newspaper story and just barely made my deadline.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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