And, silver or not, a metal banjo string makes a pretty good garrote,Eric thought.

I cast a quick glance at the beams overhead, which were vibrating like banjo strings.

Hell, they can't go searching every car in the state for old banjo strings, or a saw and what's left of a broomstick.

"Feel like I'm being held together by banjo strings," he grumbled.

A twangy voice like a plucked banjo string said: "Help a guy out, huh?"

She felt that at any moment she would actually hear them break with the same pinging sound a banjo string makes when it snaps.

The distinctive call sounds like a plucked banjo string, usually given as a single note, but sometimes repeated.

But before he was perfectly clear, there was a snap like that of a broken banjo string.

But no: he is within the 'plink plunk' of the banjo strings.

It was like being tightened like a banjo string, together and tighter until she must surely snap.