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A list of phrases related to the word "bones"...
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A
bone
to pick
As dry as a
bone
As silent as the
grave
Bag of bones
Bone
dry
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Bone
head
Bone
idle
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Bone
of contention
Bone
to pick with you
Bone
up on
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Bone
weary
Bone
yard
Chilled to the
bone
Close to the
bone
Cut prices to the
bone
Dance on someone's
grave
Dig your own
grave
Doesn't have a jealous
bone
in his body
Dog and
bone
( Cockney rhyming slang for telephone )
Feel it in your bones
From the cradle to the
grave
Have a
bone
to pick
I don't believe it ( A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The
Grave
)
I'm a doctor, not a ( A catchphrase from Leonard 'Bones' Mccoy In Star Trek )
In the
grave
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 )
One Foot In The
Grave
( BBC comedy television series )
One foot in the
grave
Pick the bones out of that
Put flesh on your bones
Rattle them bones
Skeleton
in the cupboard
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Skeleton
key
Skeleton
staff
Skin and
bone
Someone walked on my
grave
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
Telling
bone
The bare bones
Turning in his
grave
Work one's fingers to the
bone