(Britain, informal) Used as a fatuous excuse to avoid doing something.

To the fullest extent possible.

(medicine) A steel instrument used for femoral head procedures.

Alternative form of make no bones about.

A worm-like creature, Osedax mucofloris, that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea.

plural of bone-eating snot flower worm

(idiomatic) To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

Ellipsis of sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

one's behavior or characteristics are determined by one's heredity

Alternative form of sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.