单词 | cut to the bone |
释义 | cut to the boneSEE SYNONYMS FOR cut to the bone ON THESAURUS.COM Severely reduced, as in During the Depression Grandmother's housekeeping money was cut to the bone. The phrase to the bone, literally meaning “through the flesh to the inmost part or core,” dates from about 1400. This expression in effect means that everything extraneous has been cut away so that only bone remains. Words nearby cut to the bonecutting oil, cutting room, cuttle, cuttlebone, cuttlefish, cut to the bone, cut to the chase, cut to the quick, cutty, cutty grass, cuttyhunk 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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