Bodacious ta-ta’s
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There’s the Pyrrhic War (during which the original Pyrrhic Victory happened).
I’ve only ever heard arms described as akimbo.
“I remember my body; flabby, pasty-skinned, riddled with phlebitis. A good Republican body! God, I loved it.”
Guns akimbo: dual-wielding handguns or other single-hand firearms. A recent usage, coined in video gaming in the '90s, so not really good English. But it’s present in the culture, so it counts IMHO.
Inclement conditions
Inclement days
Inclement region
Inclement winds
Riddled with holes
Riddled with anxiety
Riddled with disease
Legs can also be akimbo – somehow.
Legs can also be akimbo, but that’s usually a joke.
It’s also used for a long bus with an accordian section in the middle. As a matter of fact, a bus can be “fully articulated.”
The (late? lamented?) comic strip The Circus of P. T. Bimbo had a scantily-clad female character named Legs Akimbo.
I realise I’m responding to a very old post, but ‘monger’ also fits iron, and cheese.
Other than the Marconi telegraph, of course.
That’s “ridden” with disease.
Come to think, “ridden with” only works with “disease.” A horse can be ridden, a bus can be ridden, but only a disease can be “ridden with.”
I can’t recall anything pied is used with in modern language, other than the piper. It might really be more of a proper name than a adjective-noun combo though.
Link has died. Let’s look for current ones. Some of the words submitted show up in the article on Fossil Words in wikipedia. From that, we could pull wreak havoc. Altho Inner Stickler already said it.
I don’t agree with some of the words on this list. But they do have broach, which goes with subject or topic.
The only one that isn’t wrong, one way or another, in this listis unsung. I suppose it could be deeds as well as heroes.
This list of fossils provides roughshod.
Uncounted many things can be bodacious. Just maybe not in your neck of the woods.
Synonym for ‘jointed’.
Often used to describe birds and other animals. (Pied-billed Grebe, Pied Butcherbird, Pied Stilt, . . . ) Can be used to describe costume clothing.
I got beaten to the ones I came to post.
I’ve heard “pied” used for horses, short for “piebald”.
Riddled with disease and ridden with disease both make sense, and the former is about 3 times more frequent per Google ngram corpus.
Also, ridden can go with guilt.
No, that’s wrong. Both words go with disease. And you aren’t using the correct definition of “ridden,” either. You’re thinking of the past participle of the verb ride; the other sense is an adjective.
From Merriam-Webster:
“Riddled with disease” on the other hand comes from this sense of the verb riddle:
If you are riddled with disease you are permeated with it.
Cheese-eating only goes with surrender monkey.
And coster. Who would mong us our costers if we didn’t have costermongers?