I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bone china
bone dry
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There had been no rain for months and the land was bone dry.
bone idle
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He’s just bone idle.
bone marrow
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a bone marrow transplant
chill sb to the bone/chill sb to the marrow/chill sb’s blood (= frighten sb a lot )
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He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood.
chilled to the bone/marrow (= extremely cold )
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Come and sit by the fire – you look chilled to the bone.
cut sth to the bone (= reduce it to the lowest level possible )
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Funding for art and music in schools has been cut to the bone.
dry as a bone/bone dry (= completely dry )
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These plants need some water – they’re dry as a bone.
dry as a bone/bone dry (= completely dry )
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These plants need some water – they’re dry as a bone.
funny bone
marrow bone
pared to the bone (= reduced as far as possible )
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The country’s defences have been pared to the bone .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bare
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
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But Forbes' state organization can still be described as bare bones .
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Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
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Now it was bare as picked-clean bone .
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The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
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To clothe these bare bones we have to find other material.
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We have outlined only the bare bones of the B &038; B method.
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With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose, Kent, where regulars called 999.
brittle
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Osteoporosis Otherwise known as brittle bone disease, osteoporosis is a major cause of disability and premature death.
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Perhaps I was getting too old and not nimble enough, and too brittle in the bone .
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Toning exercises also help protect against the brittle bone disease osteoporosis.
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He felt drawn, close to exhaustion, his skin stretched tight, like parchment, over his brittle bones .
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He brought the stone down once again; heard the brittle sound of bone as it snapped beneath the rock.
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Subzero temperatures in December and January can turn the ice as brittle as bone china.
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In brittle bone disease, collagen is abnormal in strength or in the links between the fibres.
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As the Venets' experience shows, trying to avoid fractures in brittle bone children can be very difficult.
broken
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Mr Robson suffered broken bones in both hands.
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Picture by Brendan O'Sullivan Few of us get through childhood without a broken bone or a few stitches.
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It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone .
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That's what a grave was: a dump for torn flesh, broken bones .
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In the 1930s top personalities from the wider sporting world took their bruises and broken bones to Highbury.
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People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones .
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Sandra is still under sedation in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and a broken collar bone .
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But then it took broken bones longer to heal as age crept into them.
dry
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Ezekiel called upon the four winds to put living breath into the dry bones .
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Even the bare winter branches, tidy and muted like dry bones , had become a disturbance of tangled nerves.
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Her mouth felt as dry as a bone and her eyes were closed against the intrusive light.
hip
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Examples of the two major kinds of dinosaurs, showing the structure of the hip bones which distinguishes them.
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The blade hone and the irregular shapes from the hip bone identify shoulder and sirloin cuts.
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There was some clothing on the body but it was really just a skeleton, the hip bones were sticking out.
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It is the shape of the hip bones , rather than other anatomical differences, that are used to classify dinosaurs.
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More interesting still, recent fossil discoveries show that the hip bones of some giant dinosaurs were almost hollow.
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The slope of the hip bone is about 20-30 degrees.
human
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For all he knew it might not be unusual to unearth human bones in grounds such as these.
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I believe with every human bone , piece of flesh and hank of hair I possess that the government is right.
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Entangled with its branches were shards of human bone , crushed now, gleaming in the glistening green.
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He had his pockets full of human finger bones .
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Baker suggests three possible reasons why human sinus bones should be naturally magnetic.
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The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs.
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Behind, lay a pile of chained human bones , a slumped fettered skeleton.
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Animals are often poor models for humans; bones in rats are quite different from human bones.
■ NOUN
animal
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Rufus did not even know if animal bones shared the same names as those of humans.
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Shreds of plastic, old iron, glass, animal bones littered both sides of the path.
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In such conditions, animal bones of any kind degrade very fast, and no fossilisation occurs.
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Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
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A bone needle, some animal bones and a few sherds of pottery were found here.
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These are not necessarily human-made objects, since finds include anything like animal bones and insect remains.
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Calcium is sometimes added deliberately to clays in the form of animal bone ash.
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Because animal bones are much more likely to survive than plant remains, the evidence is unduly biased towards a meat-eating diet.
cheek
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She had the face of an angel, high cheek bones and perfectly formed nose and mouth.
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Their hair is black and coarse, and their cheek bones are high.
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Prominent projections of the bones can become sore to touch, especially the cheek bones.
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Mr Wray suffered a dislocated fractured cheek bone .
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He argued that criminals were physically distinguishable by, for example, large jaws, high cheek bones , extra toes and so on.
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In the light from the streetlamp Kate could see the long dark lashes against her daughter's cheek bones .
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The blow caught her on the right side of her face, high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye.
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I saw small wounds, red gashes, high on the cheek bones .
china
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Interest is building up in Waterford Wedgwood, makers of the famous crystal glassware and bone china .
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There are vases of tulips and bowls of fruit, a bone china tea set and a stack of decorated hatboxes.
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A delicate process of lithography brings out the richness of the bird's colouring on Coalport's finest bone china .
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This year 31 new studies in fine bone china and porcelain have been introduced.
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Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
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We've got to treat you like best bone china .
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The subjects of many of her pictures have been transferred to Limoges dinnerware and transformed into limited-edition bone china figurines.
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Royal Tuscan will continue to produce a wide variety of fine bone china ware.
collar
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Sandra is still under sedation in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and a broken collar bone .
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Bruises on Maria were pronounced and regular proof of assaults, culminating in the broken collar bone of the previous October.
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The inquest in Cardiff heard doctors failed to spot Alison had also broken her collar bone .
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He had multiple fractures down his right side, including a smashed collar bone and arm.
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The motorcyclist, Ian Clague, of Bentley, suffered a broken collar bone .
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A fussy neighbour broke his collar bone building barricades against the hippies.
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To them, recovering from a broken collar bone in the opulent surroundings of Clarence House, would be luxury.
density
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A dose response to oestrogens has been shown with increasing doses having greater effects on bone density .
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Hologic makes medical equipment that measures bone density , used to diagnose osteoporosis.
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In some this may be a result of an imprecision of the techniques of bone density measurement.
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Is essential for normal skeleton development in children and adolescents, and for maintaining high bone density in young adults.
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They argue, as others have done, that screening is appropriate because bone density is related to subsequent risk of fracture.
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When resorption overtakes formation, the result is a decrease in bone density and strength.
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It was discovered that black girls gain 34% more bone density during puberty, compared to only 11% in white girls.
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The benefits included higher bone density , faster reaction times, greater muscle strength and better balance.
loss
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This dose of oestrogen has previously been shown to be the minimum required to prevent bone loss in normal menopausal women.
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It may reduce the accelerated bone loss of menopause, even in the absence of estrogen replacement therapy. 3.
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Each patient had three measurements of bone mineral density and rates of bone loss were estimated by linear regression for each subject.
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Estrogen replacement relieves such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats, reduces bone loss and relieves vaginal dryness.
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And whether they are reducing bone loss .
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Such amenorrhoea is associated with bone loss , and this can be prevented by the judicious use of cyclical hormones.
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It is not clear at the moment if bone loss occurs among people with bulimia.
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In older patients this effect can cause bone loss and loosening of alumina based implants.
marrow
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My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake.
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Chemotherapy worked on cancer but was destroying her bone marrow , so treatment had to be altered.
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Radium is readily absorbed into the body where it concentrates in the bone marrow and gives off very damaging alpha particles.
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Phenylbutazone may be associated with serious bone marrow toxicity and should, therefore, be avoided.
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His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant.
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Her mentor, Jim Teyechea, pushed Nogales' plight into the national spotlight, before he died of bone marrow cancer.
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He received two blood transfusions after a bone marrow transplant and wanted the name so he could sue the donor.
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In adults, normal bone marrow contains largely fat and therefore has a high signal.
structure
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Paula Grey, a raven haired girl in her early thirties with strong bone structure , had just entered the office.
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This is a young woman whose bone structure is not fully developed.
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He says it can distort bone structure , even cause heart problems.
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His features were delicate; he had the bone structure of a professional model.
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She had excellent bone structure , a well-shaped determined chin, a good figure and long legs.
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The neck itself is subject to a form of clinical exposure, its bone structure shifting and projecting.
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As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.
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Under the microscope even the bone structure of these dinosaurs looks more like that of living mammals than cold-blooded reptiles.
■ VERB
break
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Rex broke two bones in his leg.
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It would break every bone in your body, just like Richard.
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He watches her face and he smiles the way he smiled when I broke my bones .
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I was afraid of doing something wrong and ending up at the bottom in a mess of twisted metal and broken bones .
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The shaman broke the bones with his bare hands, and used the jagged edges to scratch at his bark.
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Helps older adults maintain balance and coordination, which prevents falling, broken bones and other injuries. 2.
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The inquest in Cardiff heard doctors failed to spot Alison had also broken her collar bone .
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Murray was much worse: both legs broken and bone protruding through his pelt.
chill
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He was feeling the clammy cold that seemed to penetrate his thick coat and chill his bones .
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The cold autumn-night air had chilled her to the bone , numbing her limbs with the dampness of the ground.
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The target unit is chilled to the bone , causing limbs to snap and weapons to break.
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A gust of wet wind blew down the alleyway, chilling me to the bone .
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By that time I was chilled to the bone , exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic, sullen and depressed.
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The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone .
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The cold wind closed around her like an icy fist, chilling her to the bone .
cut
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It had a lethal edge now which cut her to the bone .
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These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was.
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Budgets are tight and subject to sudden change, and inessentials, such as maintenance, are cut to the bone .
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To carve the joint, stand it with the ribs underneath, cut away the chine bone and discard.
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Rose, whose own profits were already cut to the bone to get the order, knew that she was on trial.
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His mockery, which he meant as love, frightened and cut her to the bone .
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Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone .
feel
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The fog horn started booming, a deep, thrilling vibration that Madame Astarti could feel resonate in her bones .
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Just then he felt the bone pop, then slide painfully free, and he was not grateful but angry now.
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And he was innocent of murder; she felt it in her bones .
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I can feel the bone hard and resistant and enlarged.
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They stepped forward, and his muscles stiffened until they felt like bone .
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He took the stairs one at a time, a certain lonesome feeling moving into his bones .
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She could feel every bone and sinew of him.
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He could feel it in his bones , and he knew he could trust the feeling.
pick
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That's if the lawyers left her anything after they'd picked over the bones .
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It tastes delicious and I pick it to the bone like a meticulous cat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bag of bones
be skin and bone
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The poor dog was practically skin and bone.
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When she died she was nothing but skin and bone.
be skin and bones
close to the bone
cut sb to the quick/bone
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Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone.
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His mockery, which he meant as love, frightened and cut her to the bone.
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It had a lethal edge now which cut her to the bone.
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Son, you really cut down to the quick.
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That's probably why she sent him - she knew it would cut him to the quick.
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The answer cut him to the quick.
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These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was.
need some (more) meat on your bones
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Matt, you need some more meat on your bones!
the bare bones
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I don't know how we can cut any more spending. We're down to the bare bones.
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GUIs provide the padding to the bare bones of the system.
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Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils.
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Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
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The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
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These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career.
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This is boxing stripped down to the bare bones.
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We have outlined only the bare bones of the B & B method.
work your fingers to the bone
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His mother had had a hard life - had worked her fingers to the bone bringing up six children.
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In those days we got up at 5 in the morning, and worked our fingers to the bone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Did you give this bone to the dog?
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She broke two bones in her arm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gust of wet wind blew down the alleyway, chilling me to the bone .
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Fatigue seeps like ice water into bones and joints.
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My son feels long and stringy now, all sinew, veins and bone .
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Rib chops are identified by the slightly curved rib bone and the presence of the rib-eye muscle outside of the curve.
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The hip and femur bones were fused together and no movement was possible at that joint.
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They flowed into the taut nostrils and along the prominent bones in the cheek.
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They have looked upon the bones of the prehistoric dead and seen evidence of a Stone Age holocaust.
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Trampling Another source of modification to bone that begins soon after death is dispersal and breakage by trampling.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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I spent the time before it boning up on things like Troops Out.
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Talk about boning up on sorrow.
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A really thorough murderer would have boned up on both subjects more intently.
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In his first day, Bulger began boning up on university business and spoke by phone with campus chancellors.
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So if you hate the theory so much, how come you're so boned up on it?
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Listeners preparing to bone up on the one-act Strauss shocker opening Oct. 18 should consider this Vienna production.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bag of bones
be skin and bone
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The poor dog was practically skin and bone.
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When she died she was nothing but skin and bone.
be skin and bones
close to the bone
need some (more) meat on your bones
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Matt, you need some more meat on your bones!
the bare bones
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I don't know how we can cut any more spending. We're down to the bare bones.
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GUIs provide the padding to the bare bones of the system.
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Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils.
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Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
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The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
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These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career.
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This is boxing stripped down to the bare bones.
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We have outlined only the bare bones of the B & B method.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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boned salmon
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I spent the time before it boning up on things like Troops Out.
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Scrape meat away from leg:, bone and remove bones.