| 单词 | bare bones |
| 释义 | bare bonesSEE SYNONYMS FOR bare bones ON THESAURUS.COM plural nounthe irreducible minimum; the most essential components: Reduce this report to its bare bones. There is nothing left of the town but the bare bones—a couple of stores, a church, and a few houses. Origin of bare bonesFirst recorded in 1910–15 OTHER WORDS FROM bare bonesbare-bones, adjectiveWords nearby bare bonesbareass, bareback, barebelly, bareboat, bareboned, bare bones, barefaced, barefaced lie, barefisted, barefoot, barefoot doctor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bare bones
British Dictionary definitions for bare bonesbare-bones adjectivebasic or simple; no-frills Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with bare bonesbare bones The mere essentials or plain, unadorned framework of something, as in This outline gives just the bare bones of the story; details will come later. This phrase transfers the naked skeleton of a body to figurative use. [c. 1900] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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