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bare necessities
Just sufficient resources, with nothing to spare. For example, The room was furnished with just the bare necessities
bed, table, chair. This idiom uses bare in the sense of "mere, and nothing else," a usage dating from about 1200.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Bare necessities
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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