there with bells on

“You’re exasperating! Yes, yes, if you die before me—and you won’t—I will come. I will be there with bells on.”

Peach put his pillow on the end of Aunt Florentine’s bed, took a deep breath, and said, “I will be there with bells on.”

“I will be there—with bells on! Anastasia will get you there by three, okay?”

When invited to a lunch of roast beef with Yorkshire pudding by Hitchcock, one of his idols, to discuss the film project, Brooks replied, “Yes, sir, I’ll be there with bells on.”

President Biden said he will “be there with bells on,” and 100 other world leaders are set to attend, including, of course, the host, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but not, at least so far, President Xi Jinping of China, which is by far the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.