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bare necessities

Idioms

Just sufficient resources, with nothing to spare. For example, The room was furnished with just the bare necessities—bed, table, chair. This idiom uses bare in the sense of “mere, and nothing else,” a usage dating from about 1200.

Example Sentences

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I want to make this very clear: My followers do not stalk celebrities.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022

At the Golden Globes afterparties, hoi polloi who aren’t invited to the ceremony descend by the thousands on the Beverly Hilton to whoop it up and stalk celebrities.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2017

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