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Flesh out   /flɛʃ aʊt/   Listen
Flesh out

verb
1.
Make fat or plump.  Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, plump, plump out.
2.
Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.  Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, lucubrate.
3.
Become round, plump, or shapely.  Synonyms: fill out, round.






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"Flesh out" Quotes from Famous Books



... justice. They say that we once thought it right to eat men (we didn't); but I am not here concerned with their history, which is highly unhistorical. As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one. It is much more likely that modern men will eat human flesh out of affectation than that primitive man ever ate it out of ignorance. I am here only following the outlines of their argument, which consists in maintaining that man has been progressively more lenient, ...
— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... got very frightened, and hid as quick as she could in the cellar under the floor. And Bruin went into the house, and saw there was no one there. So he took his bit of skin, got his flesh out of the pot and ...
— More Russian Picture Tales • Valery Carrick



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