Idioms

bone-crunching

bone-crunching

Extremely fierce, violent, harsh, or of great impact. There was a bone-crunching collision between the two cyclists on the road. The two teams played a bone-crunching game last night. Oh boy, Dupuis looks a little woozy after taking that bone-crunching hit along the boards.
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CRAWL (15) HHHH H A HIGH-CONCEPT creature feature that really delivers in terms of snappy and tense entertainment, Crawl is a horror-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat as it dishes out bone-crunching chills.
C) HHHH H A HIGH-CONCEPT creature feature that really delivers in terms of snappy and RAWL (15tense entertainment, Crawl is a horror-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat as it dishes out bone-crunching chills.
He's great at the bone-crunching fights monosyllabic anti-hero but the film doesn't know what it is.
Screenwriter Frank Baldwin caters to the base desires of Neeson's core fanbase with bone-crunching fist fights and a shootout.
Cold Pursuit caters to the base desires of Neeson's core fanbase with bone-crunching fist fights and a shoot out, albeit with a hero who collapses exhausted, gasping for breath, after each bout of physical exertion.
His whopping overnight seven-stroke lead reduced to two at the turn, Quiban steeled himself in the bone-crunching stage to thwart the rallying Jay Bayron with a birdie from close range off a monster drive on No.
Lawrence weathers these bone-crunching blows, then shatters her character's soul to smithereens when she thinks no one is looking, in the service of a tightly-woven narrative, threaded with betrayal and daring double-crosses.
The line which tickled my kids most was when the schoolboy "hound" gets his broken leg set: "That was a bone-crunching," Peter says.
Subtlety is placed in detention in the opening frames while plausibility is expelled for the crude, bone-crunching finale.
But it spread as his bone-crunching tackles were enjoyed - or feared - worldwide.
"BONE-CRUNCHING" road surfaces and "impossible" junctions are among the complaints of Newcastle residents bidding for a share in multimillion-pound road improvements.
Highlights include hippos joining forces with fish for a full-body exfoliation and ravens inviting wolverines over for some bone-crunching assistance with their dinner.
PRINCE Harry took two bone-crunching falls in a polo match yesterday - and still came up grinning.
Gorgodze, the number eight nicknamed Gorgodzilla for his mighty bulk, was named man of the match after leading by example in a tense and bone-crunching encounter.
More propulsive than many a car chase and as bone-crunching as any chopsocky fistfight, the professional bicycle races that drive Dante Lam's "To the Fore" rep a feat of action choreography and virtuoso lensing seldom seen in a Hong Kong sports movie.
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