bells and whistles = B = benchmark

bells whistles and gongs n.

A standard elaborated form of bells and whistles; typically said with a pronounced and ironic accent on the `gongs'.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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