Rib Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• Adam's ale
• Adam's apple
• All About Eve (Bette Davis movie)
• As dry as a bone
• Big Donkey (Nickname of baseball players Billy Butler and Adam Dunn)
• 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
• Cut prices to the bone
• Dig in the ribs
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Farewell to the ugly cigarette (Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• Have a bone to pick
• I don't know him from Adam
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Skin and bone
• Sticks to your ribs
• Take the shirt off your back
• Telling bone
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Donkey (Nickname of Adam Dunn)
• The Stache (Nickname of Adam Morrison)
• Who rattled your cage?
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Would you Adam and Eve it? (Cockney rhyming slang for would you believe it?)