cut to the bone

刻骨铭心斩钉截铁斩钉截铁的说

cut to the bone 的定义

  1. Severely reduced, as in During the Depression Grandmother's housekeeping money was cut to the bone. The phrase to the bone, literally meaning “through the flesh to the inmost part or core,” dates from about 1400. This expression in effect means that everything extraneous has been cut away so that only bone remains.

cut to the bone 近义词

cut to the bone

等同于 short

cut to the bone

等同于 succinct

cut to the bone

等同于 terse

cut to the bone

等同于 shorten

cut to the bone

等同于 distill

更多cut to the bone例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
  4. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  5. What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
  6. If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
  7. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  8. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  9. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  10. "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.