| 单词 | bone box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone box bone box n. (a) slang the mouth (now chiefly archaic); (b) a receptacle for the bones of the dead; an ossuary. ΚΠ 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Bone box, the mouth. Shut your bone box. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 190 Jack jerked his drumsticks against Ned's ‘bone box’, with a force that must have loosened every tooth. 1868 Notes & Queries on China & Japan July 111/2 The bones are arranged as nearly as possible in their natural position in a new coffin or ‘bone box’. 1907 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1906–07 C. 26 450 They [sc. the stone boxes] are rarely over 6 feet long, and some so short as to be mere ‘bone-boxes’. 1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child xxiv. 292 Seemed to me if I was to go and tell the missus as how we miss her mortal bad—but I never had no chance to open me bone-box! 2001 U.S. News & World Rep. Spec. Coll. Ed. 8/2 (caption) The tomb and an ossuary, or bone box, of Caiaphas, the high priest who reportedly presided at Jesus's trial, were found here [in Jerusalem] in 1990. 2007 T. Chevalier Burning Bright (2008) 45 ‘Shut your bone box, Charlie,’ Maggie retorted. < as lemmas |
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