Os : nm (word from latin ossum, variant of bone, ossis).
« Os » refers to each of the coins rigid, constituted by fabric special (bony) Of the skeleton de l 'To be human and with animals vertebrates.
Difficulty, obstacle, problem (cactus, hic).
Fall on a bone; there is a bone!
Automobile (car, chest, crate, carriage, chignole, mess tin).
There is a bone (in the cheese): There is a problem.
It's going to be the bone: it's going to be the snag, the problem.
Throw a bone to a dog (a nonos). Gnaw a bone.
Worth the bone: it's worth it.
It's the same bone: it's the same story, it's the same ending, it's the same thing.
Break / break someone's bones: make him fail.
Getting had to the bone: getting fucked very deeply, completely (see the expression below).
Getting caught (to the bone): getting caught.
Bone: silver.
Earning your bone: earning a good living.
Live to the bone: live to the fullest, with broken sticks.
In the bone heads: in the cemetery.
Breaking bones: seriously injuring yourself in a fall.
Give someone a bone to chew on: give them up some small profit to appease their demands.
To have protruding bones, to have only skin on the bones: to be very thin.
Running on the bone: annoying.
We see his bones (cf. we would count his ribs), it is a bag of bones, a bundle of bones: a very thin person (cf. walking skeleton).
– Quote from American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I grabbed him by the collar and dragged him outside. He didn't weigh much, a real sack of bones and he had all the difficulty in the world staying on his legs. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).
Marrow bones: money, currency.
Have some marrow bone in your pocket.
Bone marrow: nose, penis.
Juice the bone marrow: blow your nose in your fingers (instead of hanging a handkerchief).
In the flesh: in person, physically real.
Windsurfing rigid frame chicken bones (sports jargon).
Don't do your old bones: don't linger.
He won't make old bones: he won't live long.
To be soaked, frozen… to the bone.
It's rotten to the bone, to the marrow of the bones (to the core)
To have it in the bone: not to get what you wanted; to be possessed, remade. He's got it in his bone!
Watch out for your bones : be careful, be careful.
My bones / your bones: me / you.
Bring your bones : come here.
To cut someone's bone: to give him a fellatio.
The expression "To have it in the bone": To suffer a failure - To experience a disappointment - To be fooled, to be had.
When we suffer a failure or that we experience a disappointment, it is often because of another who has fooled, possessed, deceived us. And, in this case, a usual metaphor of possession makes us say, by a very poetic association with sodomy, that "we have it in the ass" or that "we are made to put (very deep, possibly)" .
According to Gaston Esnault, if this meaning of the word has existed since the end of the XNUMXth century, it was not until the middle of the next that the expression appeared.
Quote from Piotr Pavlenski (Russian activist and artist): "The goal of an artist is to be a bone in the throat of all powers" (February 2020 in the context of the so-called Griveaux affair).