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Definition of work (one's) fingers to the bone
work (one's) fingers to the bone
verb
- to work extremely hard.
My parents are immigrants. They worked their fingers to the bone to make sure my sister and I could go to good schools.
- See more words with the same meaning: to accomplish, work hard.
Last edited on Dec 12 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to accomplish, work hard': | |
| Definitions include: good tasting. | |
| Definitions include: a very good, trusted friend, often from childhood; "homie"; "boy". | |
| Definitions include: to work hard. | |
| Definitions include: an accomplishment that goes above and beyond what is expected; "a good job". | |
| Definitions include: to relax, usually with other friends; "chill". | |
| Definitions include: to focus; to perform hard, serious work. | |
| Definitions include: to work hard. | |
| Definitions include: to increase one's stature in life. | |
| Definitions include: to yell at someone; "blow up". | |
| Definitions include: to criticize; "get on (one's) case". | |
| Definitions include: to do a lot of work or spend a lot of money for something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: See nose to the grindstone. | |
| Definitions include: to seek "paper" (i.e. money.) | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: one's best effort. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
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Other terms relating to 'bone': | |
| Definitions include: an extremely skinny person. | |
| Definitions include: to eat food, to have a meal. | |
| Definitions include: euphemism for overweight. | |
| Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: screwed over or left out. | |
| Definitions include: completely. | |
| Definitions include: someone who is dense, thick in the head, or just plain stupid. | |
| Definitions include: feces. | |
| Definitions include: a cemetery. | |
| Definitions include: to leave quickly due to fear. | |
| Definitions include: having frequent sex. | |
| Definitions include: of a marijuana smoking device, empty. | |
| Definitions include: semen. | |
| Definitions include: to review prior studies. | |
| Definitions include: to review prior studies. | |
Other terms relating to 'finger': | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: a physical gesture one performs for good luck. | |
| Definitions include: to accidentally press a button or key adjacent to the desired one, e.g. while typing on a keyboard or entering a phone number. | |
| Definitions include: to look up someone on the internet. | |
| Definitions include: to insert fingers into a person's vagina. | |
| Definitions include: to stimulate the female genitals with one's fingers. | |
| Definitions include: extremely tasty. | |
| Definitions include: to express that one is literally or figuratively crossing their fingers in order to bring about good luck. | |
| Definitions include: stolen, lifted, heisted, boosted, shoplifted. | |
| Definitions include: a pretend occurrence during which stealing is permitted. | |
| Definitions include: the middle finger of either hand. | |
| Definitions include: to steal. | |
| Definitions include: to raise only the middle finger in someone's direction. | |
| Definitions include: to raise of the middle finger on a hand with the other fingers closed to the palm, towards a person. | |
| Definitions include: to be a thief. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
Other terms relating to 'to': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: See nine to five. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority. | |
| Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: to revisit one's past. | |
| Definitions include: to go back to the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; "all out". | |
| Definitions include: to be vastly superior. | |
| Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to be unintelligible. | |
| Definitions include: to do. | |
| Definitions include: more important things to deal with. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
Other terms relating to 'work': | |
| Definitions include: menial work. | |
| Definitions include: work (in a professional or educational setting) that is designed to keep a person busy, but to not permit that person to accomplish anything of note. | |
| Definitions include: to take a dump. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "get back to work". | |
| Definitions include: unofficial task done in the workplace. | |
| Definitions include: profession. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "not safe for work". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "not work safe". | |
| Definitions include: a difficult person. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "safe for work." | |
| Definitions include: to introduce a complication. | |
| Definitions include: to introduce a complication. | |
| Definitions include: means something is hella good. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "work from home" or "working from home". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "works for me". | |
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