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bag of bones |
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a bag of bones (informal) a person or animal that is extremely thin. All the plumpness she'd acquired in middle age had gone. She was a bag of bones. |
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Before him was a very ancient man, a mere bag of bones, with sightless eyes, and one hand-- his left--white and shrivelled. Was he good eating, or only a bag of bones when he slipped and fell from the tree? Never in all my life have I seen such wondrous swordsmanship and such uncanny agility as that ancient bag of bones displayed. |
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