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[boiling point]{n.} 1. The temperature at which a liquid boils. •/The boiling point of water is 272° Fahrenheit./ 2. The time when you become very angry. •/He has a low boiling point./ •/After being teased for a long time, John reached the boiling point./ •/When John made the same mistake for the fourth time, his teacher reached the boiling point.__/ Compare: BLOW UP(1b), MAKE ONE’S BLOOD BOIL.

[bolt from the blue]{n. phr.} Something sudden and unexpected; an event that you did not see coming; a great and usually unpleasant surprise; shock. •/We had been sure she was in Chicago, so her sudden appearance was a bolt from the blue./ •/His decision to resign was a bolt from the blue./ Compare: OUT OF THE BLUE.

[bombshell] See: EXPLODE A BOMBSHELL.

[bond] See: SAVINGS BOND.

[bone] See: BRED IN THE BONE, FEEL IN ONE’S BONES or KNOW IN ONE’S BONES, FUNNY BONE, MAKE NO BONES, SKIN AND BONES, T-BONE STEAK, WORK ONE’S FINGERS TO THE BONE.

[bonehead]{n.}, {slang} An unusually dense or stupid person. •/John is such a bonehead — small wonder he flunks all of his courses./

[bone of contention]{n. phr.} Something to fight over; a reason for quarrels; the subject of a fight. •/The boundary line between the farms was a bone of contention between the two farmers./ •/The use of the car was a bone of contention between Joe and his wife./

[bone to pick] or [crow to pick] {n. phr.}, {informal} A reason for dispute; something to complain of or argue about. — Often used jokingly. •/"I have a bone to pick with you," he said./ •/There was always a crow to pick about which one would shave first in the morning./ Compare: BONE OF CONTENTION.

[bone up]{v.}, {informal} To fill with information; try to learn a lot about something in a short time; study quickly. •/Carl was boning up for an examination./ •/Jim had to make a class report the next day on juvenile delinquency, and he was in the library boning up on how the courts handle it./

[bonnet] See: BEE IN ONE’S BONNET.

[book] See: CLOSED BOOK, CLOSE THE BOOKS, HIT THE BOOKS, KEEP BOOKS, NOSE IN A BOOK, ONE FOR THE BOOKS, READ ONE LIKE A BOOK, TALKING BOOK, THROW THE BOOK AT.

[boom] See: LOWER THE BOOM.

[boot] See: DIE IN ONE’S BOOTS, IN ONE’S SHOES also IN ONE’S BOOTS, LICK ONE’S BOOTS, SHAKE IN ONE’S SHOES or SHAKE IN ONE’S BOOTS, TO BOOT, TOO BIG FOR ONE’S BREECHES or TOO BIG FOR ONE’S BOOTS, YOU BET or YOU BET YOUR BOOTS.

[boot hill]{n.} A cemetery in the old Wild West where cowboys and cops and robbers used to be buried with their boots on. Hence, jokingly, any cemetery. •/Good old Joe, the cowboy, is resting comfortably in the nearby boot hill./

[boot out] See: KICK OUT.

[boot strap] See: PULL ONESELF UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS.