Marrow Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• Absolutely pure (Cadbury's Cocoa Essence advertising slogan)
• As dry as a bone
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you
• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard

• Chilled to the bone
• Close to the bone
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Core competencies
• Core dump
• Core studies
• Core technology
• Core values
• Cut prices to the bone
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)

• Frozen to the marrow
• Have a bone to pick
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rotten to the core
• Skin and bone
• Telling bone
• Time is of the essence
• Vegetable box
• Vegetable drawer
• Work one's fingers to the bone