Bang
Bang verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.
Know
Know verb - To have a practical understanding of.
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Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- They don't succeed in every detail - John's dad has to be rescued instead of rescuing young John himself, but thanks to a bang on the head, he doesn't know that, so it works well enough.
Source: Close Enough Timeline -
Bang was at least told about its function by Platinum eventually... and then he doesn't even know Litchi's problems.
Source: Franchise / BlazBlue - A two and a half seconds of screentime for a kid to say "Gimme your lunch money or else" and bang, we instantly know a ton about this character.
Source: Analysis / The Bully
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