Bust my chops - When someone says that they're not going to bust their chops, it means they are not going to work that hard or make much effort.
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Busted flush - Someone or something that had great potential but ended up a useless failure is a busted flush.
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Go bust - If a company goes bust, it goes bankrupt.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
F. buste, fr. It. busto,; cf. LL. busta, bustula, box, of the same origin as E. box, a case; cf., for the change of meaning, E. chest,. See Bushel
In literature:
The old fashioned meetings is busted up into a thousand different kinds of churches and only one God to look after them.
"Slave Narratives, Oklahoma" by Various
Den dey was allus greased after de washing to keep de skin from busting open.
"Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2" by Works Projects Administration
No waist should draw or strain across the bust.
"Textiles and Clothing" by Kate Heintz Watson
Herschel's own bust is on the north wall; he lies side by side with Charles Darwin, near the iron gate.
"Westminster Abbey" by Mrs. A. Murray Smith
I've no desire to bust up any man, an' I don't want to be busted up myself, you bet.
"Charlie to the Rescue" by R.M. Ballantyne
You'll bust up altogidder if you goes on like dat.
"The Middy and the Moors" by R.M. Ballantyne
On edge of bust, J. WRIGHT.
"The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876" by J. F. Loubat
Donatello's contemporaries must have had the same impression, for busts of this kind are but few.
"The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance" by Bernhard Berenson
I didn't see no call to bust into a solo-tout with no trivial politics like a couple of drinks.
"Prairie Flowers" by James B. Hendryx
That durned fool York done bust his laig.
"Oh, You Tex!" by William Macleod Raine
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In poetry:
Grishkin is nice: her
Russian eye is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
"Whispers Of Immortality" by T S Eliot
For those the sculptor's laurelled bust,
The builder's marble piles,
The anthems pealing oer their dust
Through long cathedral aisles.
"The Two Armies" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
She'd a slight squint in her left eye,
Her lips they were thin and small,
She had narrow sloping shoulders
And she had no bust at all.
"Miss Gee" by W H Auden
Agin' the chimbly crooknecks hung,
An' in amongst 'em rusted
The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young
Fetched back frum Concord busted.
"High-Worthy Mister!" by James Russell Lowell
Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung,
An' in amongst 'em rusted
The ole queen's arm thet gran'ther Young
Fetched back from Concord busted.
"The Courtin'" by James Russell Lowell
Says FREDDY, "Here is goings on!
To bust myself with rage I'm ready."
"I'll be a curate!" whispers JOHN -
"And I," exclaimed poetic FREDDY.
"John and Freddy" by William Schwenck Gilbert
In news:
Top five shocking secret snacks of a food writer: Busting the disgusting.
The recent bout of marijuana busts in Stanislaus County have raised questions and remarks about the presence of drugs in schools in the community.
It's been 10 years since the dot com bust, when investors realized that everything associated with the World Wide Web wasn't going to bring you P. Since then, people have realized the web is not extraordinary.
Bust of gang offers hope for Dodge City immigrants.
Man busted after trying to deposit million- dollar bill at bank.
Judge Evans busts out the doo-wop .
Man busted for allegedly masturbating in doorway .
California's San Joaquin Valley's fertile farmland has become a doper 's paradise, top law enforcement officials said Wednesday in announcing yet another big marijuana bust connected to Mexican cartels.
The Valley's fertile farmland has become a doper 's paradise, top law enforcement officials said Wednesday in announcing yet another big marijuana bust connected to Mexican cartels.
Murray Weiss, Criminal Justice Editor for the New York Post, talks about how the Brooklyn manager of Blue Pig, a Brooklyn Heights ice cream parlor, was busted for double-charging customers' credit cards.
He should have been busted the minute he checked in for his flight at Kennedy Airport.
1804 Silver Dollar, Draped Bust ($10.1 million).
View this 1951 Chevy Five Window Busted Knuckles Driveshaft Photo 5.
Check out Russ Taylor's slammin under construction 1951 Chevy Five-Window Truck, in the Busted Knuckles department of Truckin' Magazine.
0Most people cringe when they hear about roaches in restaurants, but Mi Pueblito in Raymondville is busted with proof of the contamination.
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In science:
Choose a loop-busting subset B1 for the top loops of A∗ 0 , following some meta-level considerations, i.e.
The Equational Approach to CF2 Semantics
Choose a new loop-busting set B2 for the top loops of A1 using our metalevel considerations M.
The Equational Approach to CF2 Semantics
We define the following loop-busting semantics.
The Equational Approach to CF2 Semantics
We are allowed to choose only loop-busting sets which contain elements from top loops (as defined in Definition 21, item (1)), and which are computationally minimal absolute (as defined in Definition 26).
The Equational Approach to CF2 Semantics
We are allowed to choose only loop-busting sets containing elements from top loops (as defined in Definition 21, item (1)), and which are computational minimal relative (as defined in Definition 26).
The Equational Approach to CF2 Semantics
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