Used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal.
Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers.
A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
1 This went on for several minutes, North rattling off dozens of words.
2 Father Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner.
3 The only reply came from the prisoners: more hysteria, more cage rattling .
4 Since then there has been major sabre - rattling by the Chinese armed forces.
5 Jimmy Greaves from Spurs, we used to give him a good rattling .
6 Irish Norah heard the rattling explosions in the garden, and ran out.
7 From the direction of the ridge came the faint rattling of stones.
8 The rattling of the pavements was a relief to the cold silence.
9 I paused, and a moment later my wizard's staff twitched, rattling again.
10 They listen as the rattling in her throat becomes harder and slower.
11 But suddenly all is changed; rattling thunder breaks from the cloudless firmament.
12 But the dog-cart was already rattling along about thirty miles behind them.
13 Several are rattling the cage of their weak prime minister, Theresa May.
14 Highsmith's hand went in his pocket, and I heard that rattling again.
15 The roar of cannon and rattling crash of musketry filled the air.
16 Some wild development had called the youngster away in a rattling hurry.
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