NCB
British (now historical )
noun
National Coal Board (in 1987 renamed British Coal).
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Coal.
- spare no effort
- spare no expense (or no expense spared)
- spare (or save) someone's blushes
- spare part
- spare-part surgery
- sparer
- spare rib
- spare someone's blushes
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- spare time
- spare tyre
- sparge
- sparger
- sparid
- sparing
- sparingly
- sparingness
- spark
- spark chamber
- Spark, Dame Muriel
- spark gap
- sparking plug
- sparkish
- sparkle
- sparkler