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pick the bones out of that!
- used as a challenge to unravel, or retort to, or refute, an argument UK, 1961
- She describes how she married Sinatra at 19 (he 50) and got on so well with his second wife, Ava Gardner (who had once had an affair with Mia’s father, John Farrow), that Ava declared her “the child she and Frank never had". Pick the bones out of that one — New Statesman, 7 March 1977
- a catchphrase that accompanies expectoration UK, 1984
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