| 释义 |
to one's bones (or to the bone)Used to emphasize the essential nature of a specified quality: he’s a cop to the bone...- But, anyone who thinks that careerist social climbers aren't liberals to their bones just doesn't know what he's talking about.
- He would not, however, feel any divided loyalties were his team to come up against Italy in the knock-out stages of the finals in Greece: ‘I am Australian to my bones.’
- Jeremiah was a patriot down to his bones and wrote an entire book lamenting the fall of his nation.
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