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bang away
Go ahead; begin or continue. This slangy imperative usually calls merely for energetic action, as in You can start without me—bang away . Also see go to (it) , def. 3.
Strike repeatedly, as in Mary is always banging away on the piano , or The doorbell must be broken; see who is banging away at the door . [First half of 1800s] Also see bang out .
Example Sentences
With the match long since won, Glasgow continued to bang away at the Toulon defence and Rowe crossed in the final play to round off a dominant win.
Trump can bang away all he wants, but he is not getting out of this one.
"I don't know how I escaped my mum... I used to sneak up there and just bang away at the piano," she says.
"Nobody ever said anything, but I would bang away and the sounds were just magical. I would just touch this thing and a sound would come so I was absolutely entranced."
The writer needed but a few steps to reach the instrument and bang away on the “Tristan” chord to get in the proper mood while writing “Doctor Faustus,” Mann’s controversial late novel about the role of music and art in society.
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