bare bones, bone up, to T-bone

An Indiana woman, with her 9-year-old son in tow, put her car in reverse and began backing out of her driveway. But then terror struck.

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How a spider caused a car to T-bone a school bus

The driver in Indiana jumped out of her moving car because of a spider on her shoulder. It gets crazier from there.

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Lodging in the Noble Houses of Germany

By DEBORAH KOLBEN

In recent years, about 50 family castles across the country have opened up to paying guests. Some are rustic and bare bones, while others are palatial.


“We’re really a dorm of dreamers and doers,” says Prinya Kovitchindachai, who is hoping to market a vile-tasting pill, imported from Thailand, that he touts as a hangover treatment. “College students are the largest group of binge drinkers,” he says, quietly gleeful at the prospect of such a large market so close at hand. Friends have helped him bone up on the basics of international shipping, of securing shelf space and — in a consultation with a neighbor who was wearing a towel and still dripping from the shower — of creating Web sites.

Urban Dictionary: T BONE

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=T+BONE

When a Car crashes into another car forming the shape of a T. Also you can reverse theT-Bone by throwing a Reverse T-Bone where you slam on the brakes ...

bone up


Study intensely, as in I'll have to bone up on my Spanish if I'm to pass the language requirement. The verb bone alone was used in this sense from the mid-1800s on, up being added later. [Slang; late 1800s]


bare bones

No frills. No luxuries. See bare bones system.