dog and bone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Either way, it’s a matter of dog and bone: Each of you is just a different dog with a different bone.
From Washington Post
For one night only villagers were able to enjoy a pint at the Dog and Bone.
From BBC
Alright, so I was about to write an article about Windows 10 when I realised I was proper hank marvin, so I got on the dog and bone and belled up my mate Azza.
From The Verge
Another, in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, became a temporary pub called - with a nod to cockney rhyming slang - the Dog and Bone in 2011 in protest at another venue, the Plough, closing.
From BBC
He wrote thus:— Dog and Bone, Lambeth, May 9th, 1797.
From Project Gutenberg
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