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flesh out
verb
- tr to give substance to (an argument, description, etc)
- intr to expand or become more substantial
Idioms and Phrases
Also, put flesh on the bones of . Give substance to, provide with details, amplify. For example, The editor told her to flesh out the story , or You need to put flesh on the bones of these characters . This metaphoric expression, alluding to clothing a nude body or adding flesh to a skeleton, was in the mid-1600s put simply as to flesh , the adverb out being added about two centuries later.Example Sentences
Ritter fleshes out Liz and shows more of her vulnerable side through flashbacks to the hard knocks she experienced in her emotionally turbulent past.
No timeline has been announced for the ban, with ministers asking an "implementation group" to flesh out proposals and learn from other countries.
If Hancock spent more time fleshing out his characters, perhaps the rapidly paced events of the movie鈥檚 first act wouldn鈥檛 cause such whiplash.
His most notable success was 鈥淟ittle Murders,鈥 which began as a novel and moved to the theater after Feiffer was asked to flesh out some of its characters for Chicago鈥檚 Second City troupe.
The film shares the same narrative structure as past versions but fleshes out sequences that necessitate more introspection to enhance the story鈥檚 already enchanting framework.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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