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单词 to the bare bone
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to the bare bone
(a) to the bone (also to the bare bone).
(i) Right through the flesh so as to reach the bone. Frequently hyperbolical, or in figurative contexts.
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the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase]
to the boneOE
to be out at elbow(sa1616
in (also at) low water1785
down on the knuckle-bone1883
(down) on one's uppers1886
on the rocks1889
down and out1901
on the outer1915
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > perceive by intuition [verb (intransitive)]
to the boneOE
to follow one's nosec1555
intuit1828
society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil
workeOE
swingc1000
to the boneOE
labourc1390
toilc1400
drevyll?1518
drudge1548
droy1576
droil1591
to tug at the (an) oar1612
to stand to it1632
rudge1676
slave1707
to work like a beaver1741
to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828
to feague it away1829
to work like a nigger1836
delve1838
slave1852
leather1863
to sweat one's guts out1890
hunker1903
to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932
to eat (also work) like a horse1937
beaver1946
to work like a drover's dog1952
to get one's nose down (to)1962
the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money
to the boneOE
silverlessc1325
pennilessc1330
moneylessc1400
impecunious1596
crossless1600
penceless1605
unmoneyed1606
coinless1614
emptya1643
out of pocket1679
money-bound1710
broke1716
embarrassed1744
stiver cramped1785
plackless1786
taper1789
poundlessa1794
shillingless1797
unpennied1804
fundless1809
impecuniary1814
hard up1821
soldier-thighed1825
cashless1833
stiverless1839
fly-blown1853
strapped1857
stick1859
tight1859
stone-broke1886
stony1886
oofless1888
stony-broke1890
motherless1906
penny-pinched1918
skinned1924
skint1925
on the beach1935
potless1936
boracic1959
uptight1967
brassic1982
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > marked by or betokening meanness
to the boneOE
niggardly1561
niggard1673
stingy1849
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through
to the boneOE
through and throughc1225
out and outc1300
from top to tail1303
out and inc1390
(from) head to heel (also heels)c1400
(from) head to foot (also feet)c1425
from top to (into, unto) toec1425
to the skin1526
to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530
from first to last1536
up and down1542
whole out1562
to the pith1587
to the back1594
from A to (also until) Z1612
from clew to earing1627
from top to bottom1666
back and edge1673
all hollow1762
(all) to pieces1788
from A to Za1821
to one's (also the) fingertips1825
to one's fingernails1851
from tip to toe1853
down to the ground1859
to the backbone1864
right the way1867
pur sang1893
from the ground up1895
in and out1895
from soda (card) to hock1902
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > indecent [phrase]
to the boneOE
near the knuckle1895
OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 61 On weallendum ele he het hine baðian, for ðan þe se hata ele gæð in to ðam bane.
?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xxxv, in Anglia (1881) 4 198 Betere is þe holde loverd þen þe newe, þat þe wole frete and gnawe To þe bare bone.
a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 7 Ȝet þer is a bitterore bid [read bit] to þe bon, for euer þe furþe peni mot to þe kynge.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15788 Ilk dint þat þai him gaf, it reked to þe ban.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 1059 They prile and poynten The folk right to the bare boon.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. sig. N.iii With occasyons of his warres he pylleth them with taxis and tallagis vnto the bare bones.
1596 tr. Deligtful Hist. Celestina vii. 57 The prince..hit him such a gash vnder his roundache, with his full force, that peircing his harnesse cleane thorow, he cut his flesh to the bone.
1619 T. Medeley Misericors, Μικροκοσμος 186 He shall be catched, dragd, and haled to prison, he shal be pincht & flieced to the bare bones, yea they will hardly leaue, till they haue pluckt from him all that hoe is able to make.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xi. 57 His Thumb being inflamed..I made Incision into it to the Bone.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 62 There was lately a young Gentleman bit to the Bone.
?1774 Ess. Proper Suppl. Baratariana II. xlv. 243 If we..quietly hold out our necks for the yoke of slavery, we shall not only be plucked and picked, but pared to the bone.
1800 W. Holland Diary in Paupers & Pig Killers (1984) 29 Robert called me down rather early to see the horse's leg dressed. 'Tis a nasty wound quite to the bone.
1875 Indian Med. Gaz. 1 Feb. 43/2 The muscles were then divided down to the bone with a clean cut by a catlin from the heel to its point.
1913 L. Woolf Village in Jungle i. 11 There were few in the village without the filthy sores of parangi, their legs eaten out to the bone with the yellow, sweating ulcers.
1989 R. Swindells Follow Shadow (1991) 144 I was walking head bowed and half blind in the teeth of a wind which keened like a mourner and cut me to the bone.
2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 18 I long ago had been stabbed to the bone in the metacarpal thenar of my left hand.
(ii) To the core; through and through; thoroughly, completely.
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1756 Reasons to prove that Let. printed is French Forgery 22 The Thing scarce deserves an Answer, yet I am resolved to give it one, and make these French Scoundrels blush to the Bone.
1843 Monthly Serial Suppl. to New World Apr. 125/2 Chilled to the bone by the immersion he had undergone.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xx. 375 He being Calvinist..she Lutheran..and strict to the bone.
1916 W. Owen Let. 16 Aug. (1967) 405 My poor troops were wet to the bone. (But I had my Trench Coat.)
1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me iii. iii. 302 They started jiving with the other kids between the tables like they was happy to the bone.
1997 Harper's Mag. Jan. 61 I was thrilled to the bone every time it rang.
2013 K. J. Fowler We are all completely beside Ourselves (2014) i. i. 6 My father was himself a college professor and a pedant to the bone.
(iii) To the barest minimum; to the essentials.
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1813 Parl. Hist. Eng. XVII. 1224 Then you charged the duty..payable in the colonies; where it was certain the collection would devour it to the bone; if any revenue were ever suffered to be collected at all.
1870 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. XII. xxxiii. 219 The public service had been pared to the bone, as even the supplies of ammunition had been cut short.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 9/2 (advt.) There's no wasted heat—no wasted oil. Fuel costs are cut to the bone.
1974 Billboard 22 June 48/4 I am determined not to cut any prices—I would rather have a smaller turnover but still show a profit than cut my margins to the bone.
2013 City A.M. 28 Aug. 2/4 The London housing market is currently experiencing a bubble..and that when this bursts there will be an almighty slowdown that will pare profits to the bone.
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