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Bone Phrases

82 phrases and expressions related to "bone".

Phrases

  • A bone to pick
  • Ankle biter
  • Ankle deep
  • As dry as a bone
  • Bag of bones
  • Big boned
  • Blue collar worker
  • Bombed out of your skull
  • Bone dry
  • Bone head
  • Bone idle
  • Bone of contention
  • Bone to pick with you
  • Bone up on
  • Bone weary
  • Bone yard
  • Chilled to the bone
  • Close to the bone
  • Complex fracture (a multiple fracture)
  • Cut prices to the bone
  • Diarrhoea of the jawbone
  • Dig in the ribs
  • Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
  • Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
  • Elvis the Pelvis (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
  • Feel it in your bones
  • Feel someone's collar
  • Frozen to the marrow
  • Glass jaw
  • Have a bone to pick
  • Hip and happening
  • Hip hip hooray
  • Hip hop
  • Hit me on the hip
  • Hot under the collar
  • I'm a doctor, not a (A catchphrase from Leonard 'Bones' Mccoy In Star Trek)
  • Jaw dropping
  • Joined at the hip
  • Jump someone's bones
  • Lazy bones
  • Make no bones about
  • Make old bones
  • Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Out of your skull
  • Pick the bones out of that
  • Pull a boner
  • Put flesh on your bones
  • Radio collar
  • Rattle them bones
  • Ring around the collar (Wisk detergent advertising slogan)
  • Shoot from the hip
  • Skeleton in the cupboard
  • Skeleton key
  • Skeleton staff
  • Skin and bone
  • Slip the collar
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
  • Sticks to your ribs
  • Telling bone
  • The bare bones
  • Took the collar (A baseball expression meaning failing to get any hits)
  • Work one's fingers to the bone

Related

  • A bone to pick
  • As dry as a bone
  • Bone dry
  • Bone head
  • Bone idle
  • Bone of contention
  • Bone to pick with you
  • Bone up on
  • Bone weary
  • Bone yard
  • Chilled to the bone
  • Close to the bone
  • Cut prices to the bone
  • Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
  • Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
  • Have a bone to pick
  • Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Skin and bone
  • Telling bone
  • Work one's fingers to the bone