pointing bone
noun
A bone, or an apparatus consisting of bones, used (especially by Australian Aborigines) to bring about the death or illness of the person at whom it is pointed.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929), biologist and anthropologist.
- not mince words (or one's words)
- not miss a trick
- not move a muscle
- not much chop
- not much cop
- not much in it
- not much (or a lot of) fun
- not nearly
- not necessarily
- not-ness
- notochord
- notochordal
- Notogaea
- Notogaean
- Notogea
- Notogean
- Notonecta
- notonectid
- not one's cup of tea
- not one's idea of fun
- not one's scene
- not on your life
- not on your nelly
- notopodial
- notopodium