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bare bones
bare bones
The mere essentials or plain, unadorned framework of something, as in This outline gives just the bare bones of the story; details will come later. This phrase transfers the naked skeleton of a body to figurative use. [c. 1900]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| ÁBrahÁM | | - | Hungarian |
| Amirah | | - | Arabic |
| Anicetus | | - | Ancient Greek (Latinized) |
| Padma | | - | Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu |
| RaphaËL | | - | French |
| Naomi (1) | | nay-O-mee (English), nie-O-mee (English) | English, Hebrew, Biblical |