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to the backbone

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Definitions

  1. Through and through

    Through and through; thoroughly; entirely.

    • staunch to the backbone
    • Sir Culling was an extreme Low Churchman, an Exeter Hallite to the backbone, and the head and front of the Platitudinarian Party.
    • In temperament he was Dutch to the backbone — at least as we imagine Dutch.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for to the backbone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA