My strategy worked for more than two decades until you found the broken down, shadowy pile of virtual flesh and bones that is me on Facebook.
And it is certainly true that Mr Portillo has yet to put real flesh on the bones of his policies.
Then last week, a memorandum was circulated by Deputy Secretary of Defense John Deutch that put some flesh on the bones.
He said his time in Sark had been spent "putting the flesh on the bones" of the Crowe Report and reviewing the response to an island-wide questionnaire.
Mr Lewis explained that a white paper setting out the proposals for new legislation will be published "very shortly" which will put "flesh on the bones of the government's approach".
Anne McIntosh, Conservative chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, labelled the current European negotiations as "very positive indeed" but expressed concern that her committee had not yet seen "enough flesh on the bones of the Commission's proposals".
As soon as there is some flesh put on the bones we will show they are not true.
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Like thousands of robots deployed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, PackBot fulfilled a mission that flesh-and-bones soldiers, risking life and limb, used to do.
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The scent of wild mint hangs in the air as we pass dusky ravines where baboons swing from the fig trees, swerving past brilliant white bones stripped of flesh by vultures.
Remove the chicken with a slotted spoon and let cool, then remove the bones and shred the flesh.
Wanting only to be kind, she began hunting for the ring in all seriousness, peering at the riverbed, fishing for gleams in the water, her hands aching from the cold as if the flesh were being dragged off her bones.
It is not just accountants who hope it will resist the temptation to put too much flesh on the old law's bones.
Nick Cohen, a peppery writer for Britain's centre-left media, has put flesh on the Euston manifesto's bones by listing the sins of the Islamic-leftist compact.
The court heard he went to check on his fish stocks in 2009 but all he found was fish bones after the animals had stripped the flesh off them.
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