To "own up" to something is to admit or confess to it. When people do not pronounce leading Hs, 'own' can be heard as 'hone'.
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I think the expression is really "bone up" -- to study, learn, add information/skills, whereas to hone is to narrow in, zero in, get more precise -- I think. I think the two terms get confused.
Camps will hone your skills in horseback riding and surviving in the wilderness. You must first hone the knife if you will use it in the kitchen.
phonetically its pronounced "mack-L-hone" hone pronounced same as " to hone one's skills"
Raat Hone Ko Hai was created on 2004-05-10.
'Sahabhagi hone', 'konatihi goshta ati karane'
The meaning of "stuck up" is can't move in one place.
'Hone' means 'bone' in Japanese.
Hone Heke was a 19th-century MΔori chief in New Zealand who famously cut down the British flagpole in protest of British rule, sparking the Flagstaff War. The name "Hone Heke" itself does not have a specific meaning in English.
regards hone
Hone Glendinning's birth name is Hone McMahon Glendining.
Joseph Hone was born in 1937.
Leland Hone was born in 1853.
Leland Hone died in 1896.
Hone Ropata was created in 1992.
Brian Hone was born in 1907.
Margaret Hone died in 1969.
Margaret Hone was born in 1892.
William Hone died in 1842.