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1. slang To roll dice, as for or in a game of chance. I'm usually not much of a gambler, but I couldn't resist heading to the craps table to roll the bones! 2. By extension, to take some risk on the hope or chance of a fortunate outcome.
1. slang To roll dice, as for or in a game of chance. I'm usually not much of a gambler, but I couldn't resist heading to the craps table to roll the bones! 2. By extension, to take some risk on the hope or chance of a fortunate outcome.
1. slang To roll dice, as for or in a game of chance. I'm usually not much of a gambler, but I couldn't resist heading to the craps table to roll the bones! 2. By extension, to take some risk on the hope or chance of a fortunate outcome.
Cast dice, especially in the game of craps, as in Let's go to the casino and roll the bones tonight . This slangy term was first recorded in 1897, but the noun bones has referred to dice since the late 1300s (Chaucer used it in The Pardoner's Tale ).
11 sie 2006 · "Roll the bones" means, "roll the dice", because dice have often been made of ivory or bone, and called "bones" for that reason. If you're up on your history, you may recall that the Emperor-to-be Julius Caesar would have decided to "roll the bones" shortly before he crossed the Rubicon and observed, "Okay, I rolled the bones", or, more ...
5 dni temu · Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney ‘abaht’ to the American term ‘zowie’, this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.
the back of the book listing page numbers for both main entries and cross-references for each idiom. How to Locate an Idiom. In Part 1, “Idioms and Definitions,” idioms are listed alphabetically by first word. The only first words not used to place the idioms in order are articles (a, the, some) and pronouns and possessives (someone, one ...
