bone shaking

bone shaking

Violently rattly, unsteady, or jolting. The band's music is positively bone shaking. These bone-shaking roads of the countryside are little more than uneven paths of dirt and rock. I could barely sleep on that bone-shaking bus ride, it rattled and shook so severely.
See also: bone, shake
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • have a bone on
  • bone out
  • doesn't have a (certain kind of) bone in (one's) body
  • unkind
  • crazy bone
  • bone dry
  • be bone idle
  • out of joint
  • a bone in your leg
  • bone in (one's) leg
References in periodicals archive
SNIFFING and sneezing is to a cold what bone shaking shivers, pounding headaches and excruciating tiredness is to the flu.
It delivers a decent clear sound, not bone shaking, but certainly above its price tag.
But he found giving up the game as hard as any bone shaking tackle.
Made up of Denny Dreadful Dennison on fuzz soaked organ, Dreadful Norm on a hammering bass, Paddy Dreadful on bone shaking drums, Bobby Dreadful on lead guitar and prescription medication and Benny dreadful on unrythmic rhythm and cracked vocals, The Penny Dreadfuls play rock n roll to anybody who likes The Rolling Stones, MC5, The Doors, The Stooges or who knows what R&B actually means.
These were huge events in my life, moments were I was faced with not only my mortality but a real bone shaking ache and sorrow knowing that I was looking at my future without certain people to share it with.
The original bottom-bruising penny farthings were manufactured between 1870 and 1878, but with the bone shaking ride sorted out, the new up-to-date version with mountain-bike tyres and comfy sprung seat could prove a surprise Christmas hit.
The Super Furries,led by local man Gruff Rhys, wowed fans with their newest material and even treated them to a bone shaking bass heavy set which carried so far that Gruff dedicated it to listeners in outlying villages.
In the second period Sutton lost leading scorer Perrow who had received several bone shaking tackles before finally leaving the pitch after four minutes.
In-depth, personal accounts are given of harrowing escapes from the bone shaking pounding of depth charges, the runs and manoeuvres from torpedoes and the ever-present nerve-stretching sound of the sonar `ping'.
These are not bone shaking or suspension and steering shaking but do the job successfully and the council is to be thanked for these improvements.
A BONE shaking relic unearthed by a shocked auctioneer will go under the hammer next month.
If the original Alien War was frightening when it opened at the Arches in 1992, it will be utterly bone shaking this time around.
THE days when a van was a bone shaking, agricultural beast of a vehicle with cart springs at the back have long gone.
The AFL is a tough league of bone shaking shoulders and hard hits but for any player who makes the grade the rewards are massive.
All this does not come with a bone shaking ride either, and it is actually surprisingly supple for such a sporting estate.