Ribs Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• 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
• 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)
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Get it off your chest
• Have a bone to pick
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Puts hair on your chest
• Skin and bone
• Sticks to your ribs
• Telling bone
• Treasure chest
• Work one's fingers to the bone