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boneless

  1. luuton, ruodoton.

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luuton, ruodoton Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
(RQ:Sinclair Jungle)

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.
puhekieltä Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
1916, (w), (w), ch. 18:
I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.
1931, (w), 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, "http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/investment/article631934.ece Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders", (w) of London, 11 November:
Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
(quote-journal) (Review)|date=11 May 2014|passage=In his final years he &91;(w)&93; gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that "his handshake is a boneless fadeaway

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