wail like a banshee



wail like a banshee

Scream shrilly, as in Terrified, she wailed like a banshee. In Irish folklore, a banshee is a spirit in the form of a wailing woman whose appearance is an omen that one member of a family will die. The simile dates from the late 1800s.
See also: like, wail

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
MilanMEE-lahn (Czech)Czech, Slovak, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Dutch
Yusef-Arabic
Bacharach['bækəræk]
Luisinalwee-SEE-nahSpanish
IlonkaEE-lon-kawHungarian
Lissi-Danish