ting-a-ring-ting

Updated: May 6, 2025

"The old rogue!" "Ting-a-ring-ting!" "Sold again!" "Monsieur Desroches, you are going to the play without paying," said Hure to the fourth clerk, giving him a slap on the shoulder that might have killed a rhinoceros. There was a storm of cat-calls, cries, and exclamations, which all the onomatopeia of the language would fail to represent. "Which theatre shall we go to?"

Honoré de Balzac - Colonel Chabert