Bone-dry

Definition

bone /bǝƱn/ n [C, U] အ႐ိုး။ This fish has a lot of bones in it. ❍ I've broken a bone in my arm. ❍ Her bones were laid to rest (ie Her body was buried). ❍ Buttons are sometimes made of bone. v အ႐ိုးထြင္သည္။ bone a fish/a chicken/ a piece of beef. ❏ bone china n [U] အ႐ိုးမႈန္႔ႏွင့္ ရႊံ႕ေစး ေရာစပ္ျပဳလုပ္ ထားသည့္ ေႂကြထည္ႏု။ ❏ -boned (forming compound adjs ) အ႐ိုး…။ small-boned ❍ large-boned. ❏ bone-dry adj လံုးဝေျခာက္ေသြ႕ေသာ။ ❏ bone idle adj ( derog ) အပ်င္းထူေသာ။ ❏ bone-meal n [U] အ႐ိုးမႈန္႔ (ေျမဩဇာ)။ ❏ a bone of contention [ IDM ] အျငင္းပြားမႈ၏ အရင္းခံ အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ The border has always been a bone of contention between the two countries. ❏ bone up on (sth) [ PHRV ]( infml ) အျပင္းအထန္ ေလ့လာ က်က္မွတ္သည္။ I must bone up on my French before we go to Paris. ❏ close to/near the bone [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ၁။ ဟုတ္တာဆို နာလိုခံခက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ မွန္လြန္းသျဖင့္ မခံႏိုင္ျဖစ္ရ ေသာ။ Some of his comments about her appearance were a bit close to the bone. ၂။ (ျပက္လံုး၊ ဇာတ္လမ္းစသည္) အခ်ဳိ႕အတြက္ နား၊ မ်က္စိ ရွက္စရာျဖစ္ေသာ။ Some scenes in the play are rather near the bone. ❏ cut, pare, etc sth to the bone [ IDM ] အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ျဖတ္ေတာက္သည္၊ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ Our budget has been pared to the bone. ❏ have a bone to pick with sb [ IDM ] စာရင္းရွင္း စရာရိွသည္။ I've got a bone to pick with you. Where's the money I lent you last week? ❏ make no bones about (doing) sth [ IDM ] ပြင့္လင္း သည္။ ဝန္ခံသည္။ မတြန္႔ဆုတ္။ He made no bones about his extreme left-wing views. ❍ She made no bones about telling her husband she wanted a divorce.

Examples

1. She fell and broke a bone in her foot.
2. Cook the fish
3. then carefully remove the bones.
4. He was thin
5. and his hip bones stuck out.
6. The archaeologists found fragments of bone.
7. A chess set with carved bone pieces
8. His fans have known since his 2007 Alzheimer’s diagnosis that Pratchett would not make old bones
9. but his death is still a shock.