strip to the buff

The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."

Machines had to be stripped to the buff in order to match weight limits.

Protesting somewhat, the three were stripped to the buff in front of all their fellows.

The old man stripped to the buff.

Often stripped to the buff, he hacks his way through his foes.

Self-examination for suspicious skin lesions starts with stripping to the buff.

"They didn't really make the poor bride strip to the buff in front of all their wedding guests, did they?"

To wash Malenfant had to strip to the buff and give himself a sponge-bath.

When the wax was ready, Panak stripped to the buff and took up the required position in the center of the pentagram.

It was a starlit, moonless night in the spring of 1967, just warm enough so the pair were able to strip to the buff comfortably.

Then he shook himself, stripped to the buff, clambered on the rail, drew himself up and raised his arms to plunge.

Come, strip to the buff, and put on some of these garments until--here by the fire, Waldo."

But a few rounds presently brought us all to rights again, and then, with heads bound up, and stripped to the buff, we plied our bull-dogs like heroes.

He didn't wait for fresh linens - the ones he found in the storage cupboard seemed fine to him - and stripped to the buff when the tub filled.

Greer was also editor of the Amsterdam underground magazine Suck, which published a full-page photograph of Greer: "stripped to the buff, looking at the lens through my thighs".

Mr. McNally certainly hasn't shrunk from presenting a candid picture of men who love other men, camp it up, strip to the buff, occasionally cheat on their partners and generally eye straight society with suspicion, if not hostility.

As someone who survived the Living Theater's raids into the audience and who interviews dancers as they strip to the buff during rehearsals, I found the Ruckert dancers engagingly polite, keeping a professional distance.

Vatinius looked at Caspar and saw him for what he was, and knew that had he been called, when he should have been called, he would have had such an obviously dangerous man stripped to the buff.