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MAKE NO BONES ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make no bones about mean? 

MAKE NO BONES ABOUT (verb)
  The verb MAKE NO BONES ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. acknowledge freely and openlyplay

  Familiarity information: MAKE NO BONES ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAKE NO BONES ABOUT (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Acknowledge freely and openly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

He makes no bones about the fact that he is gay

Hypernyms (to "make no bones about" is one way to...):

acknowledge; admit (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP


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