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bag of bones

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bag of bones
an extremely skinny person or animal with bones showing. (The skin is the figurative bag.) I've lost so much weight that I'm just turning into a bag of bones. Get that old bag of bones off the racetrack!
See also: bag, bone
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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.
Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
Was he good eating, or only a bag of bones when he slipped and fell from the tree?
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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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