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  • 101bare bones — bare bones, adj. the irreducible minimum; the most essential components: Reduce this report to its bare bones. There is nothing left of the town but the bare bones a couple of stores, a church, and a few houses. [1910 15] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 102Bare-throated Tiger Heron — Adult Conservation status …

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  • 103bare licensee — n: one who has a bare license – called also naked licensee; Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

    Law dictionary

  • 104bare your soul — bare (your) soul to express your secret thoughts and feelings. Although people are willing to bare their souls about subjects like rape, grief is still a difficult subject to talk about. Related vocabulary: lay bare something …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 105bare soul — bare (your) soul to express your secret thoughts and feelings. Although people are willing to bare their souls about subjects like rape, grief is still a difficult subject to talk about. Related vocabulary: lay bare something …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 106bare your heart — If you bare your heart to someone, you tell them your personal and private feelings. ( Bare your soul is an alternative form of the idiom.) …

    The small dictionary of idiomes

  • 107bare bones — bare′ bones′ n. pl. cvb the most essential facts or components: Reduce this report to its bare bones[/ex] • Etymology: 1910–15 bare′ bones , adj …

    From formal English to slang

  • 108bare|bones — bare bones, the essentials of something, without any embellishment; the unadorned facts: »These are the bare bones of the policy (London Times). bare|bones «BAIR BOHNZ», noun, adjective. –n. a very skinny person, especially one whose bones can be …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 109bare-knuck|le — «BAIR NUHK uhl», adjective. 1. without boxing gloves: »John L. Sullivan was a famous bare knuckle fighter and world heavyweight boxing champion (Lyall Smith). 2. Figurative. in which quarter is neither asked nor given: »He…developed his talent… …

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  • 110bare-ass — are ass (b[^a]r [a^]s ), bare assed are assed (b[^a]r [a^]st ),adj. completely naked. [informal] Syn: in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked. [WordNet 1.5] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English