Today's slang word of the day is make (one's) bones. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
verb
- to earn a respected position in a field of work.
Screenwriter Jenny Lumet has a penchant for "Playhouse 90"-type confrontations, which may be a genetic inevitability, given who her father is: director Sidney Lumet, who made his bones in '50s television.
-- "Movie review: 'Rachel Getting Married'", Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, October 9 2008
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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