close to （或near） the bone

close to （或near） the bone (of a remark) penetrating and accurate to the point of causing hurt or discomfort （言语）伤人的, 令人不舒服的。 ■ (of a joke or story) likely to cause offence because near the limit of decency （笑话、故事）近乎下流的。

• leguan
• pressure tube reactor
• not care for sb/sth
• melanisms
• at the wicket
• earpicks
• valvelike
• great white chief
• hadeans
• St.-Jean
• detrained
• conglomerations
• Ad's Bud
• mater lectionis
• diazo paper
• soft-rocker
• air station
• seemingness
• antipathetical
• suspension
• suspensive
• rendings
• leave someone to himself
• wouldn't dream of (doing) sth
• negativism
• parsonic
• developings
• agitatings
• white sturgeon
• hysteresis coefficiet
• the undersigned
• semiosis
• card punch
• mill hand
• acropleurogenous
• apples and pears
• in the nick
• lymphocyte
• cholecalciferol
• rösslerite
• organizational
• not have two pennies / halfpennies / beans to rub together
• carper
• sinkfuls
• isophorones
• peptones
• flittings
• monacoes
• fire for adjustment
• obtainment
• serging
• Dear Abby
• stabber
• lashups
• cleaved 或cleft或cloven
• snack bar
• hoof
• have the right end of the stick
• Naziism
• windy
• polyplane
• Houston, Samuel
• clairaudiences
• amulets
• reserve currency
• cryptobranchidaes
• step changes
• chrematistic
• Japanese quince
• disklike
• verd antiques
• feel contempt for
• possessionary
• murmurations
• guttings
• deluders
• spitting snake
• platinizes
• sweetroots
• actigraphs
• poetically
• binary word
• Tshi
• Frunze
• native languages
• cardinal flower
• in good training
• Englewood
• prehensility
• gerbille
• naphthalized
• monopolylogues
• teleguiding
• active region
• seborrhea
• cokernel
• Romanche trench
• tipsified
• jack-in-a-boxes
• lipochrome