Idioms

bone factory

bone factory

1. A cemetery or graveyard. I refuse to walk through a bone factory at night—all the graves just creep me out. Dude, you're not getting any offers because your house backs up to a bone factory, and nobody wants dead people for neighbors! The older kids dared me to go into the bone factory all by myself at night—that's why you found me there.
2. A hospital. Yep, a skiing accident landed Todd in the bone factory with several injuries. A: "Your grandmother is in the bone factory? Is she OK?" B: "Yeah, she's just having surgery on her hip." I took a nasty fall down the steps, but luckily I didn't need to go to the bone factory, and my bruises are on the mend now.
See also: bone, factory
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bone factory

1. n. a hospital. After about two months in the bone factory, I was back on the job.
2. n. a cemetery. I know I’ll end up in the bone factory just like everyone else.
See also: bone, factory
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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