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bag of bones	A skinny, malnourished person.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
bare bones	Just the minimum required	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
bend over	To bend one's upper body forward and down while standing or kneeling.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
big-boned	Used other than as an idiom: Having large bones.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Blue Blood	Belonging to upper class of the society or having a royal background	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Blue Bloods	Deprecating Term for 'Upper Class People', also - - - - Upper-Crust' 'Rich Bitches	Rate it: (4.67 / 3 votes)
bones to the late comers	If you are invited to a party (marriage /dinner /lunch) and you happen to reach there late, only the bones that are left by the people who arrived earlier than you, will be waiting for you.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
bridge	An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bridge	The upper bony ridge of the human nose.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chew the meat and spit out the bones	To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
être aux abois	To be reduced to the last extremity; To be at bay.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
feel in one's bones	To sense a fact or to have a strong conviction as a result of one's own practical experience, instinct, or gut feeling.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give me your bones	To support someone	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il est de la haute volée	He is a tip-top swell, of the first water, of the upper ten.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jump someone's bones	To have sex.	Rate it: (5.00 / 3 votes)
Keep a Stiff Upper Lip	To be strong and resilient in difficulty or in trouble	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
know what side of the bread your butter's on	To know who has the upper hand/power in a situation before you take on someone who can make your situation worse	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
love bones	A girlfriend or boyfriend.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
main sequence	A major grouping of stars that creates a narrow band from the upper left to the lower right when plotted by luminosity and surface temperature on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make no bones about	To see no difficulty in, have no objection to.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Make No Bones about Something	To be straight forward and honest	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make one's bones	To commit a murder in order to be respected in a criminal gang.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
make one's bones	To establish one's bona fides; to establish status and respect.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
meat on one's bones	An amount of flesh on one's body that stops one from being very skinny.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ne faire ni une ni deux	To make no bones about it; To make up one’s mind quickly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
no bones about it	without any doubt	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nothing to lose but their h's	Descriptive of people in England whose speech is proper or upper-class, but who are poor.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
pele e osso	skin and bones	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
prendre le dessus	To gain the upper hand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
remplumer	To put flesh on the bones	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
show who's boss	To demonstrate oneself to be dominant; to show that one has the upper hand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
skin and bones	Said of one who is emaciated; very skinny, as from lack of nutrition.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sticks and stones	Evocative of the saying "sticks and stones may (or will) break my bones, but words (or names) will never hurt (or harm) me".1957, Brendan Gill, The Day the Money Stopped	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me	A response to taunting proclaiming the speaker's indifference.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me	Alternative form of sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stiff upper lip	The quality of being resolute and showing self-restraint, associated with stereotypical British people.	Rate it: (3.75 / 4 votes)
superi; inferi	the gods of the upper, lower world.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the quality	The upper class, the high society, the gentry; the people of quality.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
the upper hand	An advantage or lead.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
upper crust	The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
upper crust	The social elite.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upper Crust	Upper class, high level of society, highest social position	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
upper hand	Advantage or control.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
upper-crust	Posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
who's who	A list of notable, famous, or upper-class people.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)