formal

1. without clothes or without make-up (= substances that women put on their faces to improve their appearance).

I thought I'd leave off the lipstick for a couple of days and go au-naturel.

2. without having been cooked, or cooked in a very simple way with nothing added.

You can stew these berries briefly with a little sugar or you can eat them au naturel.

• be shot of someone
• be shot of something
• be shot to hell
• be shot to pieces
• be sick and tired of
• be sick and tired of doing something
• be sick and tired of something
• beside
• beside the point
• beside yourself
• be sitting in the catbird seat
• be sitting on a goldmine
• be sitting on tail
• be sitting on your tail
• be sitting pretty
• be six feet under
• be skating on thin ice
• be skin and bone
• be skin and bones
• be slow off the mark
• be slow on the draw
• be slow on the uptake
• be sneezed at
• be sniffed at
• be snowed under