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#* '''2006''', Graham Searjeant, "[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/investment/article631934.ece Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders]", ''{{w|The Times}}'' of London, 11 November: |
#* '''2006''', Graham Searjeant, "[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/investment/article631934.ece Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders]", ''{{w|The Times}}'' of London, 11 November: |
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#*: Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, '''boneless''' fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors. |
#*: Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, '''boneless''' fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors. |
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#* {{quote-journal|author=Ivan Hewett|title=Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10816279/Piano-Man-a-Life-of-John-Ogdon-by-Charles-Beauclerk-review.html|work={{w|The Daily Telegraph}} (Review)|date=11 May 2014|passage=In his final years he [{{w|John Ogdon}}] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that "his handshake is a '''boneless''' fadeaway["].}} |
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Revision as of 00:43, 17 March 2016
English
Etymology
Adjective
boneless (comparative more boneless, superlative most boneless)
- Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
- 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XIV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
- The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called "boneless hams," which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.
- (chiefly British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
- 1916, P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money, ch. 18:
- I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.
- 1931, Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May:
- I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit [...] which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
- 2006, Graham Searjeant, "Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders", The Times of London, 11 November:
- Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
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- 1916, P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money, ch. 18:
Translations
without bones
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.