日積月累學口語:理想抵不過"骨感"現實

a bag of bones 骨瘦如柴的人

eg. If you don't eat more you'll soon be a bag of bones.
你要再不多吃些，真的要變得骨瘦如柴了。

be skin and bone 瘦得皮包骨；極瘦

eg. He was all skin and bone after his illness.
他病後瘦成了皮包骨。

be as dry as a bone 乾燥極了、口渴極了

eg. Let's stop for a drink. I'm as dry as a bone.
咱們停下來喝點什麼吧，我的嗓子幹得直冒煙。

be bone idle 懶到家了、懶到極點了

eg. The boy has a good enough brain but he's bone idle and won't study.
這個男孩腦子十分好，但就是懶惰成性，不肯學習。

close to the bone 近乎下流的、卑鄙的

eg. Some of his jokes were a bit close to the bone.
他的有些笑話近乎下流。

be chilled to the bone 凍僵了

eg. You will be chilled to the bone without your overcoat.
要是不穿大衣你會感到寒氣刺骨。

bone of contention 爭論的焦點

eg. The division of their father's property is their bone of contention.
父親的財產分配問題是他們爭吵的原因。

feel in your bones 直覺地意識到，從內心（預）感到

eg. She felt in her bones that she would succeed.
她堅信自己能成功。

bone up 刻苦用功讀書

eg. I must bone up on my French before we go to Paris.
在我們去巴黎之前，我必須刻苦學習法語。

throw someone a bone 給某人東西，但並不合乎他的期望

eg. The company gave another man the promotion Bill expected. But they threw him a bone—they sent him out to head a branch office way off in Iowa. And that's a dead-end job nobody wanted.
這家公司把Bill所向往的升遷機會給了別人，然而他們還是給了Bill一點恩賜，但是這並不合乎Bill的期望，他們派Bill去主持遠在依阿華州的分部辦公室。這是無人問津、一無發展前途的職位。