bone-crunching

bone-crunching

Extremely fierce, violent, harsh, or of great impact. There was a bone-crunching collision between the two cyclists on the road. The two teams played a bone-crunching game last night.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • crunch
  • battle of the giants
  • between two fires
  • come together
  • at each other's throats
  • chalk and cheese
  • be at each other's throats
  • (one, two, three) strikes against (someone or something)
  • cling together
  • in two
References in periodicals archive
CRAWL (15) HHHH H A HIGH-CONCEPT creature feature that really delivers in terms of snappy and tense entertainment, Crawl is a horror-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat as it dishes out bone-crunching chills.
CRAWL (15) [...]
C) HHHH H A HIGH-CONCEPT creature feature that really delivers in terms of snappy and RAWL (15tense entertainment, Crawl is a horror-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat as it dishes out bone-crunching chills.
CRAWL (15)
He's great at the bone-crunching fights monosyllabic anti-hero but the film doesn't know what it is.
Vengeance in a mixed message
Screenwriter Frank Baldwin caters to the base desires of Neeson's core fanbase with bone-crunching fist fights and a shootout.
HHHHH COLD PURSUIT
Cold Pursuit caters to the base desires of Neeson's core fanbase with bone-crunching fist fights and a shoot out, albeit with a hero who collapses exhausted, gasping for breath, after each bout of physical exertion.
COLD PURSUIT (15) .
His whopping overnight seven-stroke lead reduced to two at the turn, Quiban steeled himself in the bone-crunching stage to thwart the rallying Jay Bayron with a birdie from close range off a monster drive on No.
Quiban checks slide, halts Bayron charge by 5 shots
Lawrence weathers these bone-crunching blows, then shatters her character's soul to smithereens when she thinks no one is looking, in the service of a tightly-woven narrative, threaded with betrayal and daring double-crosses.
Gory thriller may be tutu much for some; Jennifer Lawrence exposes every inch of herself as ballerina turned spy
The line which tickled my kids most was when the schoolboy "hound" gets his broken leg set: "That was a bone-crunching," Peter says.
Welcome dose of nostalgia lacks grit
Subtlety is placed in detention in the opening frames while plausibility is expelled for the crude, bone-crunching finale.
three to see; DVD RELEASES
But it spread as his bone-crunching tackles were enjoyed - or feared - worldwide.
PSYCHO'S LAST HURRAH
"BONE-CRUNCHING" road surfaces and "impossible" junctions are among the complaints of Newcastle residents bidding for a share in multimillion-pound road improvements.
Plan for city's road map not a walk in park; your views wanted in PS2.6m plan to get us out of cars
Highlights include hippos joining forces with fish for a full-body exfoliation and ravens inviting wolverines over for some bone-crunching assistance with their dinner.
TV CHOICE
PRINCE Harry took two bone-crunching falls in a polo match yesterday - and still came up grinning.
Launched in the heir
Gorgodze, the number eight nicknamed Gorgodzilla for his mighty bulk, was named man of the match after leading by example in a tense and bone-crunching encounter.
Captain Gorgodze inspires Georgia to a famous win; TONGA .............................10 GEORGIA .........................17
More propulsive than many a car chase and as bone-crunching as any chopsocky fistfight, the professional bicycle races that drive Dante Lam's "To the Fore" rep a feat of action choreography and virtuoso lensing seldom seen in a Hong Kong sports movie.
To The Fore