Comments on: Skin And Bones http://www.dailywritingtips.com/skin-and-bones/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen Thorn http://www.dailywritingtips.com/skin-and-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-164809 Stephen Thorn Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:05:17 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/skin-and-bones/#comment-164809 Bonehead (dull-witted person) Bone yard (cemetery, or a junkyard for automobile parts) Bone weary (plain worn out, exhausted) Sawbones (physician) Bone box (coffin) Bone dance (sexual intercourse) Skull and crossbones (pirate's flag, "Jolly Roger") To the bone (completely, through-and-through, as in "She's beautiful to the bone!" Skint (or skinned) (financially disadvantaged, broke) Skinflint (miser) Skinny (thin, slender) Straight skinny (the correct and complete story, as in "Here's the straight skinny on Lindsay Lohan's latest movie.") Skin flute (vulgar term for a man's sexual organ -- as in "playing the ...") More than one way to skin a cat (colloquialism meaning there is more than one way to accomplish a task) There's undoubtedly more, but I'm coming up bone dry right now (ha ha ha). Bonehead (dull-witted person)
Bone yard (cemetery, or a junkyard for automobile parts)
Bone weary (plain worn out, exhausted)
Sawbones (physician)
Bone box (coffin)
Bone dance (sexual intercourse)
Skull and crossbones (pirate’s flag, “Jolly Roger”)
To the bone (completely, through-and-through, as in “She’s beautiful to the bone!”

Skint (or skinned) (financially disadvantaged, broke)
Skinflint (miser)
Skinny (thin, slender)
Straight skinny (the correct and complete story, as in “Here’s the straight skinny on Lindsay Lohan’s latest movie.”)
Skin flute (vulgar term for a man’s sexual organ — as in “playing the …”)
More than one way to skin a cat (colloquialism meaning there is more than one way to accomplish a task)

There’s undoubtedly more, but I’m coming up bone dry right now (ha ha ha).

]]> By: Advice Network http://www.dailywritingtips.com/skin-and-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-5815 Advice Network Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:19:55 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/skin-and-bones/#comment-5815 I can think of one with bone in it that is a euphemism for a condition cause by arousal. I can think of one with bone in it that is a euphemism for a condition cause by arousal.

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