Ambiguity and the headache of phrasal verbs --- To bang is indeed ambiguous, though ambiguity is hardly a reason to get divorced! Banging on the wrong side of the sheets might be! Finishing a relationship with a bang is, once again, very ambiguous!

I won't bang on about phrasal verbs but as you know they have the power to considerably modulate (and therefore complicate) communication in English.

To 'bang on' = to talk about something for a long time, especially in a way that is boring to other people

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu