a bone to pick A complaint or grievance; a point of disagreement or a difference to settle. Formerly, the expression have a bone to pick meant to be occupied, as a dog is with a bone. It was used in this sense as early as 1565.
Save. surreal /sÉËriËl/ adjective. surreal. /sÉËriËl/. adjective. Learner's definition of SURREAL. [more surreal; most surreal]. : very strange or unusual: having the quality of a dream. a surreal atmosphere/experience. The whole thing was completely surreal.
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.